Is cooperative communication unique to humans? This view is challenged by Prof. Dr. Simone Pika, a cognitive biologist, in her ERC Consolidator Grant project “Taking turns – The ‘missing’ link in language evolution?”. Here, Pika and her team of six are looking at the system of “turn-taking”, the communicative interplay.
Autonomous vehicles or devices for a smart home are becoming increasingly complex in their requirements and processes. In the future, a new machine learning system should help to make the software and hardware of artificial intelligence applications more robust, more powerful and more energy-efficient.
The dramatic losses of biodiversity can also be attributed to the type and extent of land management. The EU-funded project “FRAMEwork” aims to develop an approach in which farmers work together collaboratively to improve biodiversity on European farmland in the long term.