Computer science professor Jens Dittrich and his team at Saarland University are developing a new approach to optimizing databases that looks set to turn previously used methodologies on their head –away from hand-crafted search methods and towards automatically generated ones. The team uses what are known as evolutionary algorithms to…
After a two-year runtime, SYNAOS GmbH and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) successfully completed the satellite project BaSynaos. In BaSynaos, the software company SYNAOS and DFKI developed a joint online process planning for intralogistics and production driven by the open-source middleware for Industry 4.0 (BaSys). BaSynaos started…
On the occasion of the International Week Against Racism, Minister President Anke Rehlinger visited Saarland University to learn about the topic of hate speech on the Internet. Computer linguists Dr. Thomas Kleinbauer and Professor Dietrich Klakow presented a project in which algorithms for the automatic classification of hate speech were…
For the first time since the beginning of the Corona pandemic, Saarland University's Department of Computer Science was again able to hold a graduation ceremony. Around 200 guests, including more than 90 bachelor's, master's and doctoral graduates, attended the ceremony in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall on the uni campus. The…
What seemed like science fiction until recently may soon become reality: making virtual worlds "tangible" in the truest sense of the word. Jürgen Steimle, a computer science professor at Saarland University, wants to achieve this by means of ultra-thin electronic foils that can be applied to the body like peel-off…
