Many are familiar with it from medicine: To measure bio-signals such as the heartbeat or muscle contractions, sensor electrodes have to be placed on the skin. Until now, this has been a task for experts, because the quality of the measurements obtained depends largely on the correct positioning of these…
It's pizza night. You're standing in the kitchen, hands full of flour, wondering, "How much water needs to go into the dough again?" You don't really want to touch your cookbook or tablet with dirty fingers to look it up. It would be much nicer to be able to simply…
Saarland University and the General Student Committee (AStA) of Saarland University today (Monday, 18.10.2021) awarded computer science students Benedict Böttger and Jonas Wengel with the Prize for Outstanding Student Engagement (Preis für Besonderes Studentisches Engagement, BeStE). The two founded a student online leisure service, the "UdS SOFA", during the Corona…
Computer scientists at Saarland University have developed a method that lets diesel drivers check in real time the levels of exhaust gases their car emits. For this, only the free app "LolaDrives" and an inexpensive Bluetooth adapter for reading out the car's diagnostic system are needed. The app was developed…
In the current funding ranking of the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), Saarland University was ranked 39th out of a total of 225 universities and universities of applied sciences that received funding from 2017 to 2019. It should be noted that the ranking is not calculated adjusted for size,…
