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…
The idea is based on a computer science research project at Saarland University and is already supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy through an EXIST start-up grant. By tinkering with cardboard animals equipped with sensors that can be programmed via a mini-computer, children can be introduced…
For the third time, students of computer science at Saarland University are taking part in the international "Hour of Code" campaign, which traditionally takes place every year in the second week of December. In order to enable children to try out programming for a whole hour, this year the students…
Companies rely on "product lines" when selling cars or computer programs. The idea behind this: The more common components there are in the product variants, the lower are the production costs. Sven Apel, computer science professor at Saarland University, and two colleagues already published research results in 2008 that transfer…
