The California-based Symantec Corporation settles in Saarland and establishes a research lab in Saarbrücken. This was announced last evening by the CISPA - Helmholtz Center via press release. The industrial location is the result of the talks led by Professor Michael Backes, the founding director of the CISPA Helmholtz Center.…
Three, then Saarbrücken-based, scientists were awarded for a publication issued 11 years ago. The committee acknowledged with the SEOUL Test of Time Award the long-lasting and sustainable influence of the ontology “YAGO”. Since a decade, this semantic and formal representing data base extracts and links text-based entries from Wikipedia and…
If software errors go undetected, this can not only reduce sales significantly. In the worst case, people die. Finding errors before launching the software also costs a lot of money. According to a study by Cambridge University, software developers spend half of their programming time finding and repairing bugs. Andreas…
Tino Hempel, teacher of mathematics, physics and computer science at the Richard-Wossido-Gymnasium in the city of Ribnitz-Damgarten in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been awarded the teacher prize of the Saarbrücken computer science in Munich. Hempel accepted the prize endowed with 2,500 euros at the 109th Federal Congress of the "Verbandes zur Förderung…
The US multinational corporation General Motors has already announced the first self-driving car for the coming year; Saarland's scientists are also researching this new vehicle type. Hence, "Autonomous driving in the region and beyond" was the title of the IT theme evening, which attracted more than 60 people on March…
