The stay in Cambridge was accompanied by visiting the office of Facebook. There we’ve had a talk, held by a reasearch scientist about “How AI helps to improve mapping“. Google, for example spent about 500 mio. dollar to dominate the market of commercial maps. This fact shows, how much options this sector holds ready for new business models. One impressive example is “rescuetrack“. A full-fledged system solution for rescue efforts, presented by Florian Schenk (Convexis) at our latest Lab Talk in Stuttgart.
The week was full of interesting input. Somebody said “it feels like you drink from the fire hose“ which suggests the flood of ideas and growth of knowledge that happens at the Institute. Great to have had the opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people, everyone an expert at his field. Finally with a global view on increasing imaging technologies and next cultural game changers it turned out, we are already focussing at the right issues.