Andreas Zeller, a researcher at the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) and Professor of Software Engineering at Saarland University, has been inducted into the ranks of IEEE Fellows. Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest professional organization…
Humboldt Professor Ingmar Weber has been elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He was honored for his significant contributions to AI for social good and for the application of AI in computational social science. The world’s leading professional society dedicated to the advancement…
Alexander Koller has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, the world’s largest professional society for computational linguistics. Among the eleven new ACL Fellows this year, the Saarbrücken professor of computational linguistics is the only European. Alexander Koller was honored “for his fundamental contributions to computational semantics,…
How do we create AI systems that facilitate learning rather than dictating it? Meet Saarland University’s LaLa Lab. Directed by Professor Tomohiro Nagashima, LaLa Lab explores how we learn, how AI can improve learning, and how to make sure learners keep their agency in a society where automated learning is…
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics develop techniques for creating photorealistic, three-dimensional full-body and head avatars. Realistic digital avatars are becoming increasingly relevant, for example in virtual and augmented reality applications, video conferencing, films and computer games, or in medicine. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for…
