In an old tradition of Saarbrücken Computer Science, students, faculty and staff of all partners of the Saarland Informatics Campus have organized a torchlight procession to honor the professors Martina Maggio and Isabel Valera. The aim is to convince the professors, both of whom have received calls to other universities,…
During the kickoff event of the winter semester 2022/23, the Computer Science Student Council again presented its "Busy Beaver" Award. With this award, the student council of the computer science programs recognizes lecturers who have distinguished themselves during the past semester through special commitment in teaching. The following courses taught…
Dr. Andrea Volkamer, currently an assistant professor at Charité in Berlin, received her certificate of appointment as a university professor at the Ministry of Finance and Science on July 29, 2022. Andrea Volkamer studied bioinformatics at Saarland University, followed by a one-year research stay at Purdue University (USA). After her…
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…
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…
