At the beginning of June, the German Weather Service counted 177,000 lightning bolts in the night sky within a few days. The natural spectacle had consequences: Several people were injured by gusts of wind, hail and rain. Together with Germany’s National Meteorological Service, the Deutscher Wetterdienst, computer science professor Jens…
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…
