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The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI – German Informatics Society) is awarding Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, long-time Chairman of the Management Board of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the prestigious Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science. With this award, the GI honors the outstanding scientific achievements and extraordinary commitment of a researcher who has had a lasting impact on AI research in Germany and Europe. The festive award ceremony will take place on September 17, 2025, during the INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2025 in Potsdam.

From September 1–5, 2025, the Saarland Informatics Campus will host the internationally renowned Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata Conference. Around 110 to 150 international participants are expected to attend – including leading researchers in logic, games, formal methods, verification, and algorithmic modeling.

You’re starting a computer science–related degree program this coming winter semester at Saarland University (e.g., Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Cybersecurity, Data Science & AI, Business Informatics, or Computer Science for Teaching)? Then the Math Prep Course is just right for you! From September 8 to October 2, 2025, Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, we’ll prepare you on campus for the essential mathematical foundations. Topics such as formal languages, logic, proofs, [...]

Satellite images, social media and barcode scanners in shops offer a wealth of data that has so far been little used in the social sciences. New AI-supported methods are helping with the evaluation, but they require a great deal of IT expertise and legal and ethical consideration. This interdisciplinary expertise is now to be pooled in a competence centre called ‘Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS)’.

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.
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