The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the largest and most prestigious international scientific society in the field of computer science, has named Anja Feldmann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Professor at Saarland University, an "ACM Fellow". This honors her influential contributions to the data-driven…
Saarbrücken Max Planck Director and Professor at Saarland University, Gerhard Weikum, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His scientific contributions to computer science in the fields of databases, the World Wide Web and artificial intelligence were particularly decisive. The rector of the…
Competitive programming is about solving highly complicated algorithmic problems in a team under time pressure. A group of computer science students from Saarland University has now won a gold medal in a major European competition, the best result achieved by a German university in almost 10 years. The top ranking…
The vision has already been played out in many sci-fi series and novels: Instead of simple video calls, people talk to each other as digital avatars as if they were sitting in the same room, although, in reality, there are thousands of kilometers between them. For this kind of "telepresence"…
Vahid Babaei, head of the research group "Artificial Intelligence aided Design and Manufacturing" at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, has been awarded the "Curious-Mind-Forscherpreis 2023" in the category "Digitization, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence". The award recognizes young scientists under the age of 40 whose work not only…
