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…
Lisa Marie Rolli’s academic journey is one for the storybooks. What began as a spark of curiosity for chemistry and programming has led her to study Bioinformatics at Saarland University, where she started working as a research assistant in her early semesters. Throughout her Bachelor’s and Master’s education, she focused…
Der Informatiker Dr. Martin Schmitz ist mit dem Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ausgezeichnet worden. Das teilte die DFG heute mit. Der mit 200.000 Euro dotierte Preis gilt als einer der renommiertesten Preise im deutschsprachigen Raum für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in einem frühen Karrierestadium. Martin Schmitz leitet einen Forschungsbereich…
Professor Derek Dreyer, scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Photo: Oliver Dietze Professor Derek Dreyer, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), has recently received two prestigious international awards recognizing his research. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest scientific…
Competitive programming is about solving highly complicated algorithmic problems in a team under time pressure. A group of computer science students from Saarland University has now won a gold medal in a major European competition, the best result achieved by a German university in almost 10 years. The top ranking…
