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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Kurt Mehlhorn, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, was honored with the Saarland Order of Merit on August 20, 2025, in Saarbrücken. Minister President Anke Rehlinger presented this highest award of the Saarland during a ceremony at the State Chancellery in Saarbrücken.

How can the certification of AI systems help regulate Artificial Intelligence and build trust in the technology? This is the question being explored by German and Brazilian research teams. The project brings together research groups from Saarland University and the University of São Paulo, with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Brazilian partner organization CAPES.

Computer scientist and CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The grant, totaling €150,000, enables him to transfer the results of his ERC Advanced Grant project “S3 – Semantics of Software Systems” into practical application. In S3, Zeller is developing an intelligent software agent capable of automatically answering complex maintenance-related questions with high accuracy. The project holds the potential [...]

Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster, long-standing Scientific Director and current Chief Executive Advisor (CEA) of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), has been honored with the prestigious Rudolf Diesel Medal 2025 in the “Best Innovation Promotion” category. This award is considered the oldest innovation prize in Europe and was presented at a gala dinner in Augsburg on 10 July 2025.

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is a partner in the Southwest X startup and innovation ecosystem, which was named one of ten winning projects in the nationwide EXIST Lighthouse Competition Startup Factories organized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
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