A quick glance at the fully occupied rows of the Günther Hotz lecture hall at Saarland University was enough to reach this conclusion. Around 250 teachers and students took part in the first "Day of Digital Education“ in the Saarland. The Ministry of Education and Culture, the Landesinstitut für Pädagogik…
In the evening, State Secretary Henrik Eitel will award the Journalism Prize for Information Technology 2019, worth 5000 euros, to editors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bavarian Broadcasting and the Austrian daily newspaper "Der Standard". The award ceremony will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science. The State…
The lecture "Ethics for Nerds" had already been awarded University Pearl of the Month by the Stifterverband für Deutsche Wissenschaft in January 2019, and therefore was also eligible to be voted University Pearl of the Year in the election that ended today. First place was awarded both to the lecture…
Florian Bauckholt, Nico Gründel and Simon Schwarz from Saarland University, together with Benno Fünfstück from Dresden University and Thomas Lambertz from RWTH Aachen University, took third place in the international IT security tournament "Real World CTF - HACK THE REAL" in the Chinese capital Beijing, winning a prize of 20,000…
Today professor Wolfgang Wahlster was awarded an honorary title doctor honoris causa during ceremonial assembly of the Scientific Council of the Czech Technical University in Prague. The scientific council justified the award with the following words: “Professor Wahlster is one of the most prominent figures of the German artificial intelligence…
