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  • KTH researchers part of international brain project

    Published Jan 28, 2013

    Brain simulations are not new to KTH researcher Anders Lansner; but the EU-funded Human Brain Project is an entirely different matter, the computer science professor says.

  • Spotify’s Daniel Ek Wins KTH Great Prize

    Published Sep 17, 2012

    Daniel Ek, the 29-year-old entrepreneur behind the music streaming service Spotify, has been named winner of the KTH Great Prize for 2012. Ek becomes the youngest honouree in the 67-year history of the award.

  • 3D Modelling: Artificial Intelligence Meets Consumer Electronics

    Published Sep 06, 2012

    A KTH robotics research group has opened a website that lets users create their own 3D models using the Kinect motion-sensing camera, an inexpensive computer gaming input device that’s won over tens of millions of users since its launch less than two years ago. The camera makes data capture simple for anyone with an Internet connection, while the real work takes place in advanced artificial intelligence software on a server in the group’s lab at the School of Computer Science.

  • Face to face – from afar

    Published Jun 15, 2012

    Advances in IT and communication services are changing the way the world looks at the built environment. “Video is a building material,” says Charlie Gullström, visiting associate professor in architecture, media, interaction and communication at the KTH Department of Architecture. “As an architect, I’m interested in extending the room using virtual doors and windows.”

  • Changing the way we download large media content

    Published Jun 15, 2012

    His research might just be part of the solution of the next-generation wireless communication technology, known as 5G. Jinfeng Du has received the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad for his research efforts.

  • Danica Kragic, appointed Honorary doctor at Lappeenranta University of Technology

    Published May 16, 2012

  • Securing privacy on furture social networks

    Published Mar 21, 2012

    ACCESS Vice director Sonja Buchegger and her team are building a human-oriented communition network that will ensure user privacy and allow users to control their data. Watch how they are going to make it happen.

  • The next generation tv

    Published Feb 24, 2012

    In recent years various technologies have been developed to make our experience of moving images more vivid. The flat screen TV with HD technology and 3D cinema, for example. Now a new technology emerges, allowing us to be immersed into the visual experience. Without glasses.

  • Best method gives reception in tunnels

    Published Jul 20, 2011

    You are sitting on the train and have just started to watch a film on your mobile phone when the picture moves ever more slowly and then freezes – the train is in a tunnel. Twenty minutes later and you have only seen five minutes of the film. The people talking on their phones have been forced to call back a dozen times, so they finally give up and send a text message. Recognise the scenario? Irritating isn't it? Majid Nasiri Khormuji is currently writing his doctoral thesis on a subject that is attracting many researchers right now: What is the best, most problem-free method of transmiting a signal to a receiver irrespective of material obstacles?