30.06.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Live From Futuromondo With Dominik Tress: Organic Food for Kids, AI for the Rest
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this live episode of #digdeep, entrepreneur Dominik Tress talks about how artificial intelligence is transforming the organic food industry, recorded at the Futuromondo Cross Innovation Conference …
30.06.2026
All AI? an Elephant With Three Legs and an Ice Cream Stand With Enough Ice Cream for Everyone
AI Workshops at the Eching Municipal Library With MCML
We promise to explain the headline further down in this report! But let us start from the beginning: One thing is undisputed: AI has become an integral part of our everyday lives. To help primary …
30.06.2026
MCML Junior Members Featured in BR Abendschau
Jonas Schweisthal and Jonas Schröder Explain LLM SoccerArena
BR Abendschau recently featured LLM SoccerArena, a project from the group of MCML PI Stefan Feuerriegel at LMU Munich. In the segment, MCML Junior Members Jonas Schweisthal and Jonas Schröder were …
29.06.2026
Stefan Feuerriegel Featured in Tagesschau
Can AI Predict the FIFA World Cup?
Tagesschau recently featured MCML PI Stefan Feuerriegel and the LLM SoccerArena project, developed at LMU Munich in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cologne and Paderborn …
29.06.2026
Research Stay at Stanford University
Felix Dülmer – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
From March to May 2026, I had the opportunity to spend three months as a visiting researcher at Stanford University, hosted by Prof. Jeremy Dahl and the Ultrasound Imaging and Instrumentation Lab. …
26.06.2026
Research Stay at National University of Singapore
Bailiang Jian – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program
During my academic visit to Singapore. I am happy to work with the MVI-Lab lead by Prof. Hongwei Bran Li. The group works on a wide range of topics in medical image analysis, including CT-PET imaging …
19.06.2026
Digdeep Podcast: Does Europe Have Anything Else to Say About AI, Aljoscha Burchardt?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep Aljoscha Burchardt talks about whether Europe still has a voice in the AI debate. Four years after ChatGPT’s breakthrough, the question is whether Europe has already fallen …
19.06.2026
FIFA World Cup: How Well Can AI Predict Sports Results?
In a New Project, LMU Researchers Are Putting Different Large Language Models Head-to-Head to Find Out Which One Delivers the Most Accurate Predictions.
Who will win the FIFA World Cup 2026? LLM SoccerArena is a new project that is kicking off shortly at LMU, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Cologne and Paderborn University. …
12.06.2026
MCML PI Tom Sterkenburg Receives 2026 Simon Award
Awarded for Research in Computing, Philosophy, and Machine Learning
MCML PI Tom Sterkenburg has been awarded the 2026 Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP), recognizing …
12.06.2026
MCML Members Receive IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026 DriveX Best Paper Award
Award-Winning Work on Multi-View 3D Object Detection in Autonomous Systems
MCML Director Daniel Cremers and MCML Junior Members Malaz Tamim and Johannes Meier have received the IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026 DriveX Best Paper Award for their work on 3D object detection in autonomous …
12.06.2026
Matthias Althoff Featured in Handelsblatt
Sitegeist Develops Robots for Infrastructure Repair
MCML PI Matthias Althoff is co-founder of the Munich-based startup Sitegeist, which is developing autonomous robotic systems for the rehabilitation of aging infrastructure. The company’s modular …
10.06.2026
How Should Researchers Report Their Use of LLMs?
MCML Research Insight – With Stefan Feuerriegel, Barbara Plank, Kerstin Forster, Dominique Geissler, Abdurahman Maarouf, Sebastian Maier
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly becoming part of scientific research. They can generate text, analyze data, simulate participants, and support researchers in entirely new ways. But there …
05.06.2026
Digdeep Podcast: AI in Schools – Are We Switching Off Our Thinking or Really Turning It On?
News From the Digital World by MCML PI Frauke Kreuter and Christof Horn
In this episode of #digdeep Jochen Kuhn and Florian Karsten talk again about AI in schools and the new developments. They discusses how rapidly the debate about artificial intelligence in schools has …
