Press release of the State Chancellery of Saarland The CLAIRE initiative (Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe) and with it also the DFKI as co-founder of CLAIRE were awarded today with the "German AI Prize" for outstanding merits in research and development as well as application and…
Equipping computers with world knowledge has been a dream of artificial intelligence for decades, thought to be unattainable. Until the mid-2000s, knowledge bases were constructed manually, so they were very limited in their content coverage. With the YAGO project, Weikum and his team made a breakthrough in algorithmically building large…
Software developers spend a large part of their working time reading into existing programs and program code. Anyone who wants to know what goes on in his or her brain during this process can now take part in a joint study by Saarland University, the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Chemnitz…
In his bachelor thesis, computer science student Jasper Slusallek deals with one of the most important problems in computer science: How can certain small structures be found as quickly as possible in large networks? For this he has been awarded the "Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award" at the "International Student Awards…
Ralf Jung, a doctoral student of Saarland University and now postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, has made a significant contribution to the safety of the 'Rust' programming language. The new and increasingly popular programming language is widely used from small startups to the world's…
