The Department of Computer Science mourns the death of Professor Dr. Jacques Loeckx, who died on January 4, 2020 in Cologne, where he had lived since his retirement in 1997. Jacques Loeckx studied engineering at the Université Libre in his home city of Brussels and received his doctorate from the…
For the third time, students of computer science at Saarland University are taking part in the international "Hour of Code" campaign, which traditionally takes place every year in the second week of December. In order to enable children to try out programming for a whole hour, this year the students…
Gamification is the use of typical elements of a game in a context other than that of a computer game. The application of this concept is as colorful as its definition is dry. The same applies to research on this subject. Both take place in the Saarland. This is why…
As part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research's Science Year 2019 – Artificial Intelligence and the project "#KI50: Artificial Intelligence in Germany - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) is awarding prizes to ten scientific talents in the field of artificial intelligence. The deciding factor for…
"How I took over a company with 130 employees and learned to love data retention", explains Julian Backes, Managing Director of the software house "DIaLOGIKa", next Wednesday, 6.11.2019, from 16:15, in lecture hall 1 (building E1.3). Julian Backes founded a start-up 7 years ago at Saarland University with two fellow…
