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  • KTH programmers again Nordic Champs

    Published Oct 16, 2007

    For the sixth time in a row, a KTH student team has pulled off First Prize in the Nordic Programming Championships – and in the National Champs, which were held at the same time, other KTH teams took ...

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  • Sought-for engineers get jobs – mainly as consultants

    Published Oct 15, 2007

    One-third of all the new architects and engineers who recently graduated from KTH have found work as consultants. A frequent “entry ticket” to employment goes via their own degree projects. 98 per cen...

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  • Pilots and air traffic controllers swap roles

    Published Oct 11, 2007

    New technology for air traffic control blurs the borderlines between what has traditionally been the respective jobs of pilots and air traffic controllers. The new technology is necessary for dealing...

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  • KTH week in China on sustainable development

    Published Oct 05, 2007

    The KTH Joint Research Centre for Industrial Ecology (JRCIE) will arrange a Sino-Swedish Science & Technology Week in Jinan, China, between 10 and 13 October 2007.

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  • Shock waves burst kidney stones & create thunder

    Published Oct 01, 2007

    Shock waves are the source of a number of everyday phenomena, such as the rumble of thunder and supersonic bangs. In medicine these waves have come to use for crushing renal calculi, or stones in the ...

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  • KTH student team third in IT contest

    Published Sep 20, 2007

    Student Team Panda, from KTH´s School of Information & Communication Technology, finished on third place during “Innovate Nordic”, a Nordic IT design contest.

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  • Pocket-size DJ system

    Published Sep 17, 2007

    The pacemaker (the electronic medical device that aids people with a heart condition) was one important invention made in Sweden in the 1950s. The old concept name has now been applied to yet another ...

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  • New design methods promise better flight-control systems

    Published Sep 12, 2007

    A new EU project, coordinated by the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is to develop a new computer-aided holistic solution for the early phase of aircraft design. With knowledge fro...

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  • Hans Blix new Honorary Doctor at KTH

    Published Sep 07, 2007

    Hans Blix, a Swede mostly known among the general public for his being a senior executive at UN nuclear energy authority IAEA for many years, has been appointed Honorary Doctor by KTH. This honour is ...

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  • Dubai buys Real Estate courses from KTH

    Published Sep 06, 2007

    Dubai Real Estate Institute, which is a team of Middle East private investors, have just procured course programmes in Real Estate Economics from KTH´s Div. of Building & Real Estate Economics. This v...

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  • 1,200 foreign master´s programme students to KTH

    Published Sep 04, 2007

    An ever-increasing share of new students enrolling here at KTH are master´s programme students from other countries. This autumn some 1,200 of these will study the 42 programmes given by us in English...

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  • Peter Gudmundson candidate as new KTH President

    Published Sep 03, 2007

    The KTH Board has appointed Peter Gudmundson, Professor of Materials Mechanics at KTH, as candidate for the post of University President at KTH. The formal decision will be taken later this autumn.

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  • Venture capital to KTH spin-offs

    Published Aug 27, 2007

    Plasmatrix Materials, a company producing nanomaterials, and the med-tech company Bio Servo Technologies, both from KTH, will each receive SEK 1.5 million from STING Capital.

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  • David Beckham uses KTH invention

    Published Aug 10, 2007

    Nowadays both football players and their trainers have workloads and pulse rates under control – thanks to Activio, the Swedish health control project from KTH. This got started in 2003 and was develo...

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  • New Centre of Embedded Systems at KTH

    Published Jun 27, 2007

    Four of KTH´s Schools are involved in building a new centre for research in Embedded Systems. This is a joint effort with Swedish industry, and it will address areas such as electronic hardware, compu...

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  • Mystery of earth's innermost core solved

    Published Jun 21, 2007

    New studies show that iron, the principal constituent of the innermost parts of the earth's core, becomes unusually 'soft' at the extreme pressures and temperatures that prevail there. The findings, ...

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  • KTH´s Great Prize to Christer Fuglesang

    Published Jun 19, 2007

    Christer Fuglesang, who became the first Swede into space as he joined space shuttle Discovery into orbit in December 2006, is receiving the KTH Great Prize for 2007, since he has added himself and hi...

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  • Hombert one of Europe´s top Young Entrepreneurs

    Published Jun 14, 2007

    KTH student Jonas Hombert has been appointed one of the 18 European finalists who will compete for the “Young Entrepreneurs 2007” award, sponsored by renowned magazine Business Week.

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  • No language problem as computers condense texts

    Published Jun 11, 2007

    Today´s extreme abundance of digital information makes it impossible to select the right one for ourselves, from among it all, by traditional means. The major world languages can now offer computer pr...

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  • International prize for KTH thesis

    Published Jun 08, 2007

    Dr. Magnus Johnson, at the KTH Div. of Corrosion Science, has been awarded the 2007 Morris Cohen Award in recognition of his employing new approaches to the subject in his doctoral dissertation ”Vibra...

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