The program for the 2026 edition of CMMRS is now online. This year's lineup of lecturers and mentors once again includes international leaders as well as rising stars in their respective research fields. Lectures will cover a variety of cutting-edge topics in AI, NLP, formal methods, programming languages, and software…
The Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs, in cooperation with the Saarland Informatics Campus, has presented the Journalism Prize for Informatics. The German Informatics Society is a partner of the prize. The main prizes were awarded to a radio feature by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF), an article from the magazine "c’t –…
Whether guiding robots across factory floors or managing complex logistics operations, AI systems designed for automated planning can solve such problems. Earlier planning systems relied largely on symbolic techniques such as logic. In recent years, however, more and more methods from machine learning have been integrated to improve system performance.…
Prof. Dr. Karol Myszkowski is being honored with the “Outstanding Technical Contributions Award” from the European Association for Computer Graphics. This is the highest technical distinction in the European computer graphics community. Dr. Marc Habermann receives one of the two “Young Researcher Awards,” which annually recognize the most outstanding early-career…
AI agents have improved rapidly and demonstrate remarkable capabilities in areas such as communication and software programming. In this interview, MPI-SWS director Krishna Gummadi clarifies the characteristics of AI agents and discusses the benefits they offer people and the risks they pose to society.
