The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI – German Informatics Society) is awarding Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, long-time Chairman of the Management Board of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the prestigious Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science. With this award, the GI honors the outstanding scientific achievements and…
The computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures Strings, that is, character sequences of any kind such as texts in any natural language, appear everywhere in our daily lives, and they constitute some of the biggest datasets generated by humanity. Tomasz Kociumaka, research…
Forschungstage supports the next generation of scientists with lectures, workshops, and insights into latest computer science research From June 25 to 27, 2025, Saarbrücken will once again become a hub for young computer science enthusiasts from across Germany. Since 2008, the Saarbrücken Research Days have provided selected high school students…
First Fully AI-Dubbed Film Launched in U.S. Theaters Dubbed films often suffer from mismatched lip movements and audio, which can disrupt the viewing experience. An internationally operating UK-based startup has now developed a solution to this problem—inspired by research from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany: using…
Computer science professor and CISPA researcher Andreas Zeller has now become the first German to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. Zeller receives the award for "significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education." Andreas Zeller's research on software security topics is highly influential internationally. Andreas Zeller's…
