It's a mind sport that many people don't know about, but which is easily comparable to well-known disciplines such as chess or Go in terms of excitement and complexity - competitive programming. It involves solving highly complicated algorithmic problems under time pressure. A team of computer science students from Saarland…
Joint press release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Google Germany In June, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany and Google have announced a strategic research partnership to start the "Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)" at the Max Planck…
Hans-Peter Seidel, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Honorary Professor at Saarland University, has been honored by the world's largest computer science association, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his seminal contributions to the research field of computer graphics. To be elected into…
Prof. Derek Dreyer, head of the Foundations of Programming research group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern since 2008, and an Honorarprofessor of Saarland University since 2017, has been appointed as a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Scientific Director of MPI-SWS…
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken (Germany) and Google have agreed on a strategic partnership to establish the "Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)" at the MPI for Informatics. The center will conduct basic research in frontier areas of computer graphics, computer…
