Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Kurt Mehlhorn, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, was honored with the Saarland Order of Merit on August 20, 2025, in Saarbrücken. Minister President Anke Rehlinger presented this highest award of the Saarland during a ceremony at the State Chancellery in…
The computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures Strings, that is, character sequences of any kind such as texts in any natural language, appear everywhere in our daily lives, and they constitute some of the biggest datasets generated by humanity. Tomasz Kociumaka, research…
Forschungstage supports the next generation of scientists with lectures, workshops, and insights into latest computer science research From June 25 to 27, 2025, Saarbrücken will once again become a hub for young computer science enthusiasts from across Germany. Since 2008, the Saarbrücken Research Days have provided selected high school students…
First Fully AI-Dubbed Film Launched in U.S. Theaters Dubbed films often suffer from mismatched lip movements and audio, which can disrupt the viewing experience. An internationally operating UK-based startup has now developed a solution to this problem—inspired by research from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany: using…
The Saarland Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy, in collaboration with the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC), has awarded the 2024 Journalism Award for Computer Science. The German Informatics Society serves as an institutional partner. This year’s winners include a Deutschlandfunk podcast episode, an article from “mare –…
