They prepare complex data material, analyze it using statistical and artificial intelligence methods in order to calculate previously unknown trends and facts. Such specialists are not only highly sought-after on the labour market. Even now, thousands of well-paid positions remain vacant. Saarland University is therefore introducing the bachelor's and master's…
The Department of Computer Science at Saarland University turned 50 years old as of a few days ago. While Günter Hotz was the first professor of computer science in 1969, there are now 1900 students enrolled in computer science, and around 800 scientists conduct research at the six world-renowned research…
"Chappie" is the third movie in the film series "Artificial Intelligence in Cinema" and will be shown on 28 May at 18:30 in the Filmhaus Saarbrücken. The action film from 2015 deals with an autonomous police robot that is kidnapped by street gangsters and receives human consciousness. This leads to…
The Bachelor and Master program "Data Science and Artificial Intelligence" always begins in the winter semester at Saarland University. "Artificial intelligence is now used everywhere, in online shopping, autonomous driving and medical data analysis," explains Professor Jens Dittrich, who heads the Big Data Analytics research group at Saarland University. Data science has…
Human genomes vary quite a bit from individual to individual. These differences include single nucleotide change in the DNA sequence, but even more variation comes from structural variants, which include additions, deletions and rearrangements of large segments of DNA. A recent study done by Professor Tobias Marschall and international colleagues…
