Researchers at Paderborn University have surveyed some 7,500 school pupils on the challenges they have faced and paint an ambivalent picture of the status quo

High Tax Levies, Little Trust

Billions of people use the internet every day, producing nonillions of bytes of data. Artificial intelligence (AI) is used to obtain structured findings from these huge volumes of data. In particular, this benefits companies that need to make business-critical decisions based on data.

Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, is the coldest capital city in the world. During the long winter season, lasting about seven months, temperatures of minus 30 °C are considered normal – which means constant heating is required for homes.

140,000 processing cores, the very latest generation of high-tech features, and compact enough to fit inside a squash court – Paderborn University is getting a new supercomputer.

Researchers from TRR 266 “Accounting for Transparency” at Paderborn University and LMU Munich offered a first look at the data from their third worldwide survey on tax complexity, carried out in 2020. Once again the data confirms what the previous studies (2018 and 2016) showed: the general level of tax complexity has increased worldwide in the last two years.

In collaboration with colleagues from the University of Münster, the Technische Universit?t Berlin and the Tor Vergata University of Rome in Italy, physicists from Paderborn University have succeeded in depositing ultra-thin organic layers on the semiconductor material silicon with atomic precision.

Die Coronapandemie hat es nochmal deutlich gezeigt: Die Digitalisierung der Hochschullehre ist eine Herausforderung, die es schnellstm?glich zu bew?ltigen gilt. Neben technischen Hürden haben sich insbesondere auch Ungleichheiten in den Lernvoraussetzungen der Studierenden herauskristallisiert. Um den Einsatz digitaler Hilfsmittel zur F?rderung von Selbststeuerung, Feedback und die Integration nicht-kognitiver Aspekte in die Prüfungskultur zu…