The Berlin-based artist Alicja Kwade had her personal genome printed out for her exhibition "In Absence" - on 314,000 DIN A4 pages of paper. To do this, she collaborated with Sven Rahmann, bioinformatics professor at Saarland University. The exhibition can be visited at the Berlinische Galerie until April 4. The…
This year, for the 15th time, the Saarland State Chancellery, in cooperation with the Saarland Informatics Campus, awards the Journalist's Prize for Informatics. A documentary aired by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, a radio feature by Deutschlandfunk Kultur, an article from the magazine "ZEIT WISSEN" and a YouTube video by Bayerischer Rundfunk will…
Yesterday, the Saarbrücken professors of computer science Bernt Schiele, Joël Ouaknine and Thomas Lengauer were appointed "Fellows" by the largest computer science association in the world, the "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)". The appointment honors their influential contributions in various areas of computer science. Worldwide 71 new ACM Fellows were…
A Joint Press Release by Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security This year, three computer scientists from Saarbrücken were awarded an "ERC Starting Grant" by the European Research Council. This award, endowed with 1.5 million euros each, is among the…
Knowing how long a program needs to perform its calculations is of central importance for many applications. Only with this knowledge can one guarantee that time-critical systems in cars, airplanes or industrial plants react in time. The architecture of the computer on which software runs is very important for the…
