Computer science professor Jörg Hoffmann has been appointed Fellow of the "European Association for Artificial Intelligence" (EurAI). With this, EurAI honors his outstanding and lasting contributions to the research field of artificial intelligence in Europe. The decisive factor for the award was his research in the field of AI planning.…
During this year's digital kickoff event, the Computer Science Student Council presented its "Busy Beaver" award for the first time since the start of the Corona Pandemic. The award is given to lecturers in the department of Computer Science who have distinguished themselves through their teaching. For the winter semester…
This year, the Ursula Hill-Samelson Teacher Prize of the Saarbrücken Computer Science goes to the Bavarian computer science teacher Albert Wiedemann. The prize, which is funded with 2500 Euros, is for teachers who have made a special contribution to the subject of computer science. Since 2015, the award has been…
The lecture "Ethics for Nerds" had already been awarded University Pearl of the Month by the Stifterverband für Deutsche Wissenschaft in January 2019, and therefore was also eligible to be voted University Pearl of the Year in the election that ended today. First place was awarded both to the lecture…
Ethics and computer science? They belong together! Not only Prof. Holger Hermanns and Kevin Baum see it that way, but also the Stifterverband. The event 'Ethics for Nerds' was therefore awarded the Pearl in January 2019. Now there is a chance to win the Pearl of the Year. We need…
