Hans-Peter Seidel, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Honorary Professor at Saarland University, has been honored by the world's largest computer science association, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his seminal contributions to the research field of computer graphics. To be elected into…
Combining research strength and integration expertise: Arvato Systems and the Smart Service Engineering research department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) have established a sales and development partnership. The common strategic goal of the partnership is to optimally support customers on their way to becoming a data-driven…
With the "Log4Shell" vulnerability one of the biggest digital risks of recent years was exposed, and deepfakes of ukranian president Zelensky were used for disinformation in the Ukraine crisis. These examples alone show: Topics in computer science have enormous social relevance. That is why the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation,…
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken (Germany) and Google have agreed on a strategic partnership to establish the "Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)" at the MPI for Informatics. The center will conduct basic research in frontier areas of computer graphics, computer…
The Saarbrücken computer scientists Michael Schmidt and Bernhard Schommer, together with five colleagues, were honored with the internationally renowned "ACM Software Systems" award for the development of a highly secure compiler. Previous winnersof the award include the developers of the "UNIX" operating system, the "World Wide Web" or the developer…
