Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools are becoming increasingly indispensable in chemistry research laboratories and in industry. At Saarland University, two researchers from chemistry and computer science are working together to develop a teaching concept that will introduce chemistry students to data-driven methods early on in their studies and equip…
How do software developers respond when they come across code they do not intuitively understand? Neuropsychologists have now explored this question by recording brain activity alongside eye movements. A team of psycholinguists then compared the findings with established patterns from natural language processing and identified some surprising parallels. The interdisciplinary…
With several papers presented at CVPR 2026, DFKI demonstrated the breadth of its research in visual AI. The spectrum ranged from 3D scene understanding and relational reasoning, through multimodal perception, to simulation, generation and workshop contributions.The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, or CVPR for short, is one…
The program for the 2026 edition of CMMRS is now online. This year's lineup of lecturers and mentors once again includes international leaders as well as rising stars in their respective research fields. Lectures will cover a variety of cutting-edge topics in AI, NLP, formal methods, programming languages, and software…
The 2026 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing has been awarded to an international team of researchers for their seminal 2011 paper, "Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation". Among the recipients is Danupon Nanongkai, Director of the Algorithms and Complexity department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Jointly…
