High Speed Information

Wireless internet is supposed to be available everywhere and make ever faster connections possible – to the advantage of the user. These are the goals of the scientists at the “Excellence Cluster” Ultra-High-Speed Information and Communication (UMIC) in Aachen, which is composed interdisciplinary of 21 professorships of the departments of computer science, electrical engineering and information technology, since the insatiable hunger for innovation wants to be appeased. Already today, the scientists are able to realize futuristic appearing projects, e.g. a deformable e-book or the development of a new device for mobile access to the internet solely virtually on a screen. It has the same capabilities as the final real device – without any hardware. Hence, a new device can be fully tested before it is developed, which saves time and costs, important factors in international competition. In order to determine the current level of research and to evaluate possible future progress a day of scientific exchange, the UMIC day, is held annually.