On April 3, 14 girls aged 10 to 16 visited the Saarbrücken MPIs for Girls’ Day. The “Girls’ Day – Future Prospects for Girls” is a nationwide initiative in Germany aimed at inspiring girls to explore professions in which women are still underrepresented, particularly in fields such as IT, engineering,…
The Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs, in cooperation with the Saarland Informatics Campus, has again awarded the Journalism Prize for Informatics. This year for the first time, the German Informatics Society is a partner of the prize. A radio feature from Südwestrundfunk, an online video from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung,…
Further intensifying cooperation between the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Saarland University and the partnered non-university computer science research institutions in Saarland – that is the aim of the "Saarland University Associate Fellowship". The faculty has now appointed the first six scientists to the rank of "Fellows". The…
As part of a €60,000 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Professor Wojciech Matusik, head of the Computational Design and Fabrication research group at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will begin a research collaboration with the Department of Computer Graphics at the Max Planck Institute…
Chip manufacturer Intel and the Saarland are supporting innovative research projects in computer science. A corresponding cooperation agreement was signed last year. Seven research projects have now been presented at a kick-off event, which are funded equally by Intel and the state as part of the "Future of Graphics and…
