Advancing future technologies and developing the foundations for a new generation of artificial intelligence systems that can learn from people, interact with them seamlessly, and assist them—this is the aim of the new Max Planck Center for Visual and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (MPC-VMI). The Center brings together the Max Planck…
The Saarbrücken Computer Science Research Days support the next generation of scientists with lectures, workshops, and insights into current computer science research. From June 24 to 26, 2026, Saarbrücken was once again a hub for young computer science enthusiasts from all over Germany. Since 2008, the Saarland Informatics Campus, as…
The 2026 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing has been awarded to an international team of researchers for their seminal 2011 paper, "Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation". Among the recipients is Danupon Nanongkai, Director of the Algorithms and Complexity department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Jointly…
Prof. Dr. Karol Myszkowski is being honored with the “Outstanding Technical Contributions Award” from the European Association for Computer Graphics. This is the highest technical distinction in the European computer graphics community. Dr. Marc Habermann receives one of the two “Young Researcher Awards,” which annually recognize the most outstanding early-career…
Making virtual worlds tangible is one of the key challenges in the field of human-computer interaction. While vision and hearing are already well integrated into virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), the sense of touch still lags behind. The Sensorimotor Interaction group, led by Dr. Paul Strohmeier at the…
