How do software developers respond when they come across code they do not intuitively understand? Neuropsychologists have now explored this question by recording brain activity alongside eye movements. A team of psycholinguists then compared the findings with established patterns from natural language processing and identified some surprising parallels. The interdisciplinary…
The Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs, in cooperation with the Saarland Informatics Campus, has presented the Journalism Prize for Informatics. The German Informatics Society is a partner of the prize. The main prizes were awarded to a radio feature by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF), an article from the magazine "c’t –…
Whether guiding robots across factory floors or managing complex logistics operations, AI systems designed for automated planning can solve such problems. Earlier planning systems relied largely on symbolic techniques such as logic. In recent years, however, more and more methods from machine learning have been integrated to improve system performance.…
Professor Andreas Keller and his team at Saarland University have been selected to join the Collaborative Research Network (CRN). This comes with funding from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, in collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF). The aim is to identify drug candidates…
Am 22. April findet der UdS-KI-Tag für Studierende im Innovation Center (Gebäude A2 1) statt. Der Untertitel lautet: „Entdecke, wie KI dir hilft, effizienter zu studieren, dich gezielt auf deine berufliche Zukunft vorzubereiten und eigene Lernagenten zu entwickeln – präsentiert von der Universität des Saarlandes und dem AStA mit Microsoft als besonderem…
