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…
Open Diffix is an MPI-SWS-supported open software project to develop strong but usable data anonymization. Open Diffix is built on the data anonymization technology Diffix, which has been developed in a research partnership between the group of Paul Francis and Aircloak GmbH. Open Diffix recently released its first tool, „Diffix for Desktop“.…
Two papers from Saarland Informatics Campus have received an "Honorable Mention" for the "Outstanding Paper Award" at the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022). Both papers are part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center "Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Daniel Fišer,…
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…
A Joint Press Release by Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security This year, three computer scientists from Saarbrücken were awarded an "ERC Starting Grant" by the European Research Council. This award, endowed with 1.5 million euros each, is among the…
