The lecture "Ethics for Nerds" had already been awarded University Pearl of the Month by the Stifterverband für Deutsche Wissenschaft in January 2019, and therefore was also eligible to be voted University Pearl of the Year in the election that ended today. First place was awarded both to the lecture…
Florian Bauckholt, Nico Gründel and Simon Schwarz from Saarland University, together with Benno Fünfstück from Dresden University and Thomas Lambertz from RWTH Aachen University, took third place in the international IT security tournament "Real World CTF - HACK THE REAL" in the Chinese capital Beijing, winning a prize of 20,000…
Today professor Wolfgang Wahlster was awarded an honorary title doctor honoris causa during ceremonial assembly of the Scientific Council of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The scientific council justified the award with the following words: “Professor Wahlster is one of the most prominent figures of the German artificial intelligence…
Ethics and computer science? They belong together! Not only Prof. Holger Hermanns and Kevin Baum see it that way, but also the Stifterverband. The event 'Ethics for Nerds' was therefore awarded the Pearl in January 2019. Now there is a chance to win the Pearl of the Year. We need…
The Department of Computer Science mourns the death of Professor Dr. Jacques Loeckx, who died on January 4, 2020 in Cologne, where he had lived since his retirement in 1997. Jacques Loeckx studied engineering at the Université Libre in his home city of Brussels and received his doctorate from the…
