Research Initiative
Future Internet

The Future Internet research initiative was set up on 19.11.2008 by the executive committee of the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Description of the Research Project

The supply, handling and use of information and the way in which we communicate with each other has changed at a dramatic pace over the last fifteen years, mostly through technology associated with the internet. Today, most of the knowledge in existence all over the world can be accessed at the click of a mouse. New services will, in the future, expand the internet into an interactive medium for social networks (Web 2.0) and connect the physical world with people (cyber-physical systems) to an extent that we still cannot imagine. Over the coming years, this will very quickly continue to have a profound effect on our lives.

The challenges associated with this cannot be examined and answered by one institute alone, but only in a joint initiative of interdisciplinary research groups. The Future Internet research initiative will provide structural support for successful examination of the topic "Internet, Information and I - Living in a Connected Word". This initiative will aim to analyse, in an interdisciplinary manner, how every one of us is becoming more and more connected with a continually growing wealth of information, machines and people in virtual, real and social networks and to make this more useful for individuals and institutions.

The goal is to co-ordinate the current activities of participating institutions on this topic, to strengthen and create synergies through networking, information exchange, joint projects and project applications as well as issuing a joint description of activities and results. In addition to an executive committee, a spokesperson and a co-ordination centre, four working groups on the Internet of Things, Audiovisual Data, Privacy & Copyright and Services and Architectures will be formed for internal structuring.

Participating Institutions

L3S Research Centre

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl

German National Library of Science and Technology

Dr. Irina Sens

Institute of Systems Engineering - Systems and Computer Architecture Section

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Müller-Schloer

Institute of Systems Engineering - Real Time Systems Section

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernardo Wagner

Institute of Communications Technology - Communication Networks Specialist Group

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Fidler

Institute of Communications Technology - News Transfer Systems Specialist Group

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Kaiser

Institute of Information Processing - Multimedia Signal Processing Section

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörn Ostermann

Central Services Information Tchnology

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gabriele von Voigt

Institute of Legal Informatics

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgó

Institute of Marketing and Management (M2)

Prof. Dr. Klaus-Peter Wiedmann

Contact

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernardo Wagner

Institute of Systems Engineering
Real Time Systems Section
Appelstr. 9A

D - 30167 Hannover

Tel. +49 511.762 - 5516

E-mail wagner@rts.uni-hannover.de