Der Informatiker Dr. Martin Schmitz ist mit dem Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ausgezeichnet worden. Das teilte die DFG heute mit. Der mit 200.000 Euro dotierte Preis gilt als einer der renommiertesten Preise im deutschsprachigen Raum für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in einem frühen Karrierestadium. Martin Schmitz leitet einen Forschungsbereich…
The Saarbrücken team secures a place in the world championship, ranking among the top three German teams. The team from Saarland University won a silver medal at the European Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). This achievement secured the team, jointly trained by Saarland University and the Max…
Arata Jingu, a PhD student in Professor Jürgen Steimle's Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Saarland University, has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship. These prestigious fellowships are awarded annually to researchers worldwide who are making outstanding and innovative contributions to computer science and related disciplines. Arata Jingu is a researcher in…
Two media informatics students at Saarland University have developed a technically enhanced cuddly toy and a high-tech glove. With their research, Anna Calmbach and Sophie Kunz want to offer seriously ill children the opportunity to be connected with their parents at a distance. The idea came about when they were…
How can virtual reality (VR) be experienced haptically, i.e., through the sense of touch? This is one of the fundamental questions that modern VR research is investigating. Computer scientist André Zenner, who is based in Saarbrücken, Germany, has come a significant step closer to answering this question in his doctoral…
