An ERC Grant is one of the most lucrative research prizes bestowed by the European Union. Professor Laurent Bartholdi of Saarland University has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant – the highest category of ERC Grant that can be given to an individual scholar. Over the next five years, mathematician…
Computer science professor Jens Dittrich and his team at Saarland University are developing a new approach to optimizing databases that looks set to turn previously used methodologies on their head –away from hand-crafted search methods and towards automatically generated ones. The team uses what are known as evolutionary algorithms to…
After a two-year runtime, SYNAOS GmbH and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) successfully completed the satellite project BaSynaos. In BaSynaos, the software company SYNAOS and DFKI developed a joint online process planning for intralogistics and production driven by the open-source middleware for Industry 4.0 (BaSys). BaSynaos started…
On the occasion of the International Week Against Racism, Minister President Anke Rehlinger visited Saarland University to learn about the topic of hate speech on the Internet. Computer linguists Dr. Thomas Kleinbauer and Professor Dietrich Klakow presented a project in which algorithms for the automatic classification of hate speech were…
A novel approach from Saarbrücken, Germany, promises to overhaul a whole range of laser material processing techniques: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have developed an artificial intelligence-based method for this purpose that significantly speeds up some of the intermediate steps in production. There is an industry collaboration…
