NVIDIA is a leader in the manufacture of graphics processors and computer chips for personal computers and game consoles. Speaking to 1,200 experts at the SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver, Canada in August 2018, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a fundamental improvement in computer graphics. NVIDIA was the first company to…
Specialists who evaluate data for companies using mathematical methods and thus secure a lead in the race for customers and profits are desperately sought after. The data science start-up "d:AI:mond " from the Saarbrücken Informatics Campus at Saarland University responds to this need and offers companies expertise in the form…
Software systems are prone to attacks if users do not use them properly. This also applies to so-called cryptocurrencies, experts say. For the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, two computer scientists at the CISPA Helmholtz Center are now providing scientific proof. Over several months, they searched publicly available information for disclosed security details.…
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded its 2018 Starting Grants. In this year's funding round, two researchers from Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC) were successful. Andreas Bulling, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and Björn Brandenburg, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, received an ERC Starting Grant and up to 1.5…
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are increasingly attracting millions of users, but also cybercriminals, as a successful attack means maximum profit with little risk. This also applies to "ether," the most widely used cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. As a precautionary measure, researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz Center i.G. at Saarland University have developed…
