Chip manufacturer Intel and the Saarland are supporting innovative research projects in computer science. A corresponding cooperation agreement was signed last year. Seven research projects have now been presented at a kick-off event, which are funded equally by Intel and the state as part of the "Future of Graphics and…
New research area “Vision and Language Models (VLMs)” at the Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence under the direction of Professor Bernt Schiele Saarbrücken, London. February 5, 2024 – The Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Google deepen their strategic research partnership. With additional financial support…
Prof. Frank Olaf-Schreyer has been appointed to a research professorship at the world-renowned Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley. From 2002 until his retirement in the summer semester of 2023, mathematician Schreyer held a bridge professorship for mathematics and computer science…
The European Computer Graphics Association, Eurographics, honored Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek for his outstanding contributions and leadership in the field of computer graphics and artificial intelligence. The award was presented on November 30, 2023, as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Philipp Slusallek…
Competitive programming is about solving highly complicated algorithmic problems in a team under time pressure. A group of computer science students from Saarland University has now won a gold medal in a major European competition, the best result achieved by a German university in almost 10 years. The top ranking…
