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…
Press release of the State Chancellery of Saarland The CLAIRE initiative (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe) and with it also the DFKI as co-founder of CLAIRE were awarded today with the "German AI Prize" for outstanding merits in research and development as well as application and…
Ralf Jung, a doctoral student of Saarland University and now postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, has made a significant contribution to the safety of the 'Rust' programming language. The new and increasingly popular programming language is widely used from small startups to the world's…