Yesterday evening Mayor Charlotte Britz awarded the honorary citizenship of the state capital Saarbrücken to Professor Wolfgang Wahlster. With this award, the city of Saarbrücken honors Wahlster's achievements "in the successful establishment and further development of Saarbrücken as a leading location for information technology ". This makes Wahlster the first…
With the British film "Ex Machina", the film series started last week in the Filmhaus Saarbrücken cinema. Around 90 people attended the screening. Following the film – which represents Alex Garland's directing debut – Stephanie Catani, Professor of Modern German Literature and Media Studies, commented on the debut in a…
This week, ZF Friedrichshafen AG opened a new research center at the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC). In the "ZF AI & Cybersecurity Center", the global automotive supplier intends to research how artificial intelligence can be used profitably in the automotive industry. Present at the opening ceremony were Wolf-Henning Scheider, ZF…
Last Wednesday the Saarland Ministry of Education and Culture and the State Institute for Education and Media, together with Saarland University, organized the first "Day of Computer Science Teaching". "The imparting of knowledge and the acquisition of skills in the field of computer science are becoming more and more important…
Last Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) presented its Academy Awards, known worldwide as the "Oscars", for the 91st time. But Markus Gross was already an Academy Award winner. This is his second "Academy Award for Technical Achievement". Gross studied computer science at Saarland University, where…
