Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology
| Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology |
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 Fraunhofer FIRST in Berlin-Adlershof (right, next to Bessy ) |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Carrier: | Fraunhofer Society |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Seat of the wearer: | Munich |
| Facility location: | Berlin-Adlershof |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Subjects: | Engineering |
| Areas of expertise: | Computer science |
| Basic funding: | Federal government (90%), states (10%) |
| Management: | Stefan Jähnichen |
| Employee: | approx. 120 |
| Annotation: | Disbanded in 2012 |
| Homepage: | www.first.fraunhofer.de |
The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST , also known as Fraunhofer FIRST for short, was a research facility of the Fraunhofer Society that existed from 1983 to 2012 and was based in Berlin-Adlershof . His activities were assigned to applied research and development in engineering in the field of computer science .
history
The story began in 1983 when the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD) founded the Research Center for Innovative Computer Systems and Technology . At the foundation was Wolfgang K. Giloi from the Technical University of Berlin significantly involved. The focus of work in the 1980s was the development of parallel computers .
In 1991 a cooperation with the simulation group of the Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR began . In 1992 around 35 employees of the AdW were taken over by the GMD, and the institute moved to Berlin-Adlershof.
In the same year the research center became the Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology of the GMD.
With the merger of GMD and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in 2001, the institute became part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's ICT group and was given the name FIRST. On July 1, 2012, the institute was merged with Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Berlin part of Fraunhofer ISST to form a large institute for information and communication technology. The location of this institute is Charlottenburg.
Research and Development
Fraunhofer FIRST placed the needs of people at the center of its work. An overview of the institute's work areas at the time of dissolution:
- Embedded Systems
The Embedded Systems division offered methods and tools for the development and quality assurance of software that safely and reliably controls a large number of devices. The main areas of work included:- Design and implementation of complex systems for safety and time-critical applications,
- Services for complex component-based systems ,
- fail-safe and fault-tolerant embedded distributed systems ,
- Quality control,
- Validation of system requirements and advice on system security.
- Interactive Systems
The Interactive Systems division developed interfaces between man and machine that can be operated intuitively and respond to natural human forms of communication. The main areas of work included:- Interactive, immersive multimedia environments ,
- Media manager, media player ,
- 3-D graphics, projection technology,
- pressure-sensitive, multimodal input devices,
- mobile devices, simulation systems,
- Grid technologies.
- Intelligent Data Analysis
The methods of the Intelligent Data Analysis department helped to filter information from high-dimensional data collections and to make predictions about the behavior of complex systems. The main areas of work included:- Theory and application of intelligent data analysis,
- machine learning ,
- Time series analysis ,
- Blind source separation,
- Independent Component Analysis ,
- Signal processing,
- Analysis of neurophysiological signals, etc. a. Analysis of DNA and protein structures ,
- Handwriting recognition ,
- Analysis of acoustic data,
- Financial data analysis.
Through interdisciplinary cooperation between the departments of Fraunhofer FIRST, solutions for the automotive and traffic, medicine, media and software development sectors were developed that did justice to the complexity of the systems at that time.
Cooperations
Fraunhofer FIRST was a member of the Fraunhofer ICT Group.
In the university area, there was a cooperation agreement with the software engineering department of Faculty IV - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin , which covered the basic research needs of Fraunhofer FIRST and was supported by the double function of the institute director (also head of the department).
Infrastructure
Around 120 people were employed.
The operating budget of Fraunhofer FIRST in the 2006 financial year was € 8.3 million. Around 40% of this came from the basic funding, 90% of which is financed from federal funds and 10% from state funds. Around 20% of the operating budget was income from contract research by the private sector, the remaining funds came from specific public grants and other income.
Fraunhofer FIRST was last headed from 1991 by Stefan Jähnichen , who was also head of the software engineering department at the Technical University of Berlin.
Footnotes
- ↑ Senate decides to integrate the Berlin ICT institutes on July 1, 2012 , press release of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, May 8, 2012. Retrieved on August 8, 2013