A new partnership brings together two leading AI research institutions to deepen scientific ties between Canada and Germany and advance trustworthy AI, agentic AI, AI safety, and AI for the energy sector. The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Canadian research institute Mila have agreed to join…
AI can free up more time for lawyers to focus on their actual legal work: At the EDV-Gerichtstag conference, taking place September 23 - 25 on the Saarbrücken campus, the Institute for Legal Informatics at Saarland University will present AI tools for research, teaching, and student studies. Professor Georg Borges…
Large language models such as ChatGPT have become an integral part of everyday life for many people and businesses. They are being used, e.g., to gather information from multiple sources and to support complex planning processes. Yet these AI systems are not infallible and they continue to make mistakes –…
On August 26, 2026, three representatives from the department visited the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium in Saarbrücken to present the Bachelor’s program in Language Science and the Language Science and Technology department to interested students during the Career Information Day. To prepare graduating students for professional life and provide insights into various career…
MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer has received the Most Influential ICFP Paper Award for the 2016 paper "Higher-Order Ghost State," co-authored with MPI-SWS alumnus Ralf Jung as well as Robert Krebbers and Lars Birkedal. The award recognises the paper’s lasting impact on the Iris program logic framework, which has become…
