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The Saarland Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy, in collaboration with the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC), has awarded the 2024 Journalism Award for Computer Science. The German Informatics Society serves as an institutional partner.

Computer science professor and CISPA researcher Andreas Zeller has now become the first German to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. Zeller receives the award for “significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education.” Andreas Zeller’s research on software security topics is highly influential internationally.

Lisa Marie Rolli’s academic journey is one for the storybooks. What began as a spark of curiosity for chemistry and programming has led her to study Bioinformatics at Saarland University, where she started working as a research assistant in her early semesters. Throughout her Bachelor’s and Master’s education, she focused on reliability and interpretability in AI.

On April 3, 14 girls aged 10 to 16 visited the Saarbrücken MPIs for Girls’ Day. The “Girls’ Day – Future Prospects for Girls” is a nationwide initiative in Germany aimed at inspiring girls to explore professions in which women are still underrepresented, particularly in fields such as IT, engineering, natural sciences, and technology.

Der Informatiker Dr. Martin Schmitz ist mit dem Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ausgezeichnet worden. Das teilte die DFG heute mit. Der mit 200.000 Euro dotierte Preis gilt als einer der renommiertesten Preise im deutschsprachigen Raum für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in einem frühen Karrierestadium.
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