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…
Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems are part of one of only three newly established "Konrad Zuse Schools" for Artificial Intelligence, which are being set up by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funding from the Federal Ministry of…
This year, for the 15th time, the Saarland State Chancellery, in cooperation with the Saarland Informatics Campus, awards the Journalist's Prize for Informatics. A documentary aired by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, a radio feature by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, an article from the magazine "ZEIT WISSEN" and a YouTube video by Bayerischer Rundfunk will…
Yesterday, the Saarbrücken professors of computer science Bernt Schiele, Joël Ouaknine and Thomas Lengauer were appointed "Fellows" by the largest computer science association in the world, the "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)". The appointment honors their influential contributions in various areas of computer science. Worldwide 71 new ACM Fellows were…
