In the film "Transcendence" Johnny Depp plays a highly respected scientist whose consciousness is saved on a supercomputer after an attack. Uploaded onto the Internet, he drastically changes the world. The “Kino im Filmhaus” will be showing the 2014 science thriller on Thursday, November 14, starting at 6:30 pm, in…
Gamification is the use of typical elements of a game in a context other than that of a computer game. The application of this concept is as colorful as its definition is dry. The same applies to research on this subject. Both take place in the Saarland. This is why…
As part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Science Year 2019 – Artificial Intelligence and the project "#KI50: Artificial Intelligence in Germany - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) is awarding prizes to ten scientific talents in the field of artificial intelligence. The deciding factor for…
"How I took over a company with 130 employees and learned to love data retention", explains Julian Backes, Managing Director of the software house "DIaLOGIKa", next Wednesday, 6.11.2019, from 16:15, in lecture hall 1 (building E1.3). Julian Backes founded a start-up 7 years ago at Saarland University with two fellow…
Stretchable circuits have the advantage that they also work in textiles such as clothing. However, their production is considered to be very costly. A new, simplified process has now been presented by two computer scientists from Saarland University. It is based on a so-called laser cutter and its precise, fast…
