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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 – Magazin für Computertechnik” , and an online piece by Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). A special prize was awarded to an article in the children’s science magazine “GEOlino.”
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. Computer scientist Daniel Höller now aims to develop AI planning systems that bring together the advantages of both approaches.
Prof. Dr. Karol Myszkowski is being honored with the “Outstanding Technical Contributions Award” from the European Association for Computer Graphics. This is the highest technical distinction in the European computer graphics community. Dr. Marc Habermann receives one of the two “Young Researcher Awards,” which annually recognize the most outstanding early-career scientists. The Eurographics Conference 2026 takes place from May 4 to 8 in Aachen, Germany.
Anthony W. Lin — Max Planck Fellow at MPI-SWS and CS professor at RPTU in Kaiserslautern — has received an Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026, one of the flagship conferences in machine learning, for his work on “Transformers are Inherently Succinct” (https://openreview.net/forum?id=Yxz92UuPLQ)!
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have coauthored 20 papers at the LICS 2026 and ICALP 2026 conferences, two of the top conferences in theoretical computer science. LICS is the premier conference on logic in computer science and ICALP is the flagship conference of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
Kaiserslautern/Bremen/Hanover – The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is further expanding its international activities: At the Hannover Messe, the DFKI is signing two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Brazilian organizations in the field of artificial intelligence and applied research – its long-standing partner SENAI CIMATEC and the innovation hub NEXUS AI Campus. The agreements are part of German-Brazilian cooperation: Brazil is the partner country of this year’s [...]
How can artificial intelligence be effectively transitioned from research to real-world use? At Hannover Messe 2026, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) will demonstrate how AI solutions can be deployed in an economically viable, socially responsible, and technologically autonomous way. From April 20 to 24, DFKI will showcase practical AI technologies and transfer methods in Hall 11, Booth B30, as well as at partner booths, thereby strengthening Germany as an innovation hub and bridging scientific excellence and practical application.
Making virtual worlds tangible is one of the key challenges in the field of human-computer interaction. While vision and hearing are already well integrated into virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), the sense of touch still lags behind. The Sensorimotor Interaction group, led by Dr. Paul Strohmeier at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics, is researching how to change this. Two papers written by the group in collaboration with Saarland University and international partners will now [...]
The EATCS Award for the best theory paper at ETAPS 2026 was awarded to Isa Vialard, Joël Ouaknine and Quentin Guilmant for their paper “The value problem for weighted timed games with two clocks is undecidable”, published in FoSSaCS 2026. The EATCS award is given each year to the best ETAPS papers in theoretical computer science.
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 Gast“. Die Veranstaltung wird von der Stabsstelle Digitalisierung, ZeLL, dem Dezernat Lehre und Studium, dem DFKI und dem AStA organisiert
The Saarland state government announced last June that it would support the establishment of a Center for Quantum Technologies (QuTe) at Saarland University with more than €53 million in funding. Today, the center officially begins its work with a ceremonial kick-off event. Among those attending are Minister Jakob von Weizsäcker, University President Ludger Santen, and Astrid Lambrecht, Chair of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich, which will work closely with the new center.
Even the best AI language models — so-called large language models — can be significantly off the mark when it comes to logical questions. In such cases, calculations are incorrect, sequences are reproduced incorrectly, or the AI hallucinates and invents false statistics or quotes. Michael Hahn, a computational linguist at the Department of Language Science and Technology and Computer Science, has already produced promising research results addressing this problem. For this work, he has now been [...]
Städte enthalten enorme Mengen an wertvollen Materialien, die in bestehenden Gebäuden verbaut sind und bei Sanierungen oder Rückbauten häufig ungenutzt verloren gehen. Genau hier setzt Urban Mining an: Es betrachtet Gebäude als Materiallager und zielt darauf ab, vorhandene Baustoffe und Bauteile systematisch zu erfassen und wiederzuverwenden, statt sie zu entsorgen. Urban Mining spielt somit eine entscheidende Rolle für die klimaneutrale Transformation der Bauwirtschaft. Das Forschungsprojekt [...]
MPI-SWS scientific director Joël Ouaknine was appointed as a Fellow by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). Joël, who leads the “Foundations of Algorithmic Verification” research group, was appointed EATCS fellow for “fundamental contributions to the algorithmic analysis of dynamical systems and related formalisms.”
Thinking about a Master’s in Computer Science, Visual Computing, or Embedded Systems in Germany and not sure how programs work, what admissions look for, or how to compare universities? [...]
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