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Am 01. Februar tritt Yang Zhang seine neue Position als Faculty am CISPA an. Zhang hat bereits die vergangenen drei Jahre am Großforschungseinrichtung des Bundes in Saarbrücken gearbeitet, zuletzt als Leiter einer Forschungsgruppe. Von Januar 2017 bis
Ethics and computer science? They belong together! Not only Prof. Holger Hermanns and Kevin Baum see it that way, but also the Stifterverband. The event ‘Ethics for Nerds’ was therefore awarded the Pearl in January 2019. Now there is a chance to win th
The Department of Computer Science mourns the death of Professor Dr. Jacques Loeckx, who died on January 4, 2020 in Cologne, where he had lived since his retirement in 1997. Jacques Loeckx studied engineering at the Université Libre in his home city of
Researchers led by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg and the Center for Bioinformatics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, have developed a cheaper and faster method to check for genetic differences in individua
The idea is based on a computer science research project at Saarland University and is already supported by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy through an EXIST start-up grant. By tinkering with cardboard animals equipped with sensors
More and more people want to be able to adapt their working hours to their individual needs and choose their jobs accordingly. Dynamic and flexible schedules could help, but rarely do. The people in charge of these schedules are quickly overwhelmed, an
2.93 trillion US dollars’ worth of transactions were carried out in online retailing worldwide in 2018. So-called security protocols form the foundation for this. Christoph Weidenbach, computer science professor at Saarland University and head of a res
Ministerialdirektorin Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ina Schieferdecker ist die neue Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende des CISPA Helmholtz-Zentrum für Informationssicherheit – gGmbH. Sie wurde auf der vergangenen Sitzung am Dienstag, 10. Dezember, gewählt. Die Informatikerin f
For the third time, students of computer science at Saarland University are taking part in the international “Hour of Code” campaign, which traditionally takes place every year in the second week of December. In order to enable children to try out prog
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CISPA-CEO und Gründungsdirektor Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael Backes wird am 26. November der Karl Heinz Beckurts-Preis verliehen. Es ist einer der renommiertesten Forschungspreise Deutschlands. Die Karl Heinz Beckurts-Stiftung würdigt mit der Auszeic
In the film “Transcendence” Johnny Depp plays a highly respected scientist whose consciousness is saved on a supercomputer after an attack. Uploaded onto the Internet, he drastically changes the world. The “Kino im Filmhaus” will be showing the 2014 sc
Große Ehre für CISPA-Faculty Andreas Zeller. Der Professor für Softwaretechnik wurde von der International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) zu einem der ersten Fellows ernannt. Die IFIP ist eine der ältesten globalen Organisationen für Fors
Gamification is the use of typical elements of a game in a context other than that of a computer game. The application of this concept is as colorful as its definition is dry. The same applies to research on this subject. Both take place in the Saarlan
As part of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s Science Year 2019 – Artificial Intelligence and the project “#KI50: Artificial Intelligence in Germany – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”, the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) is awarding prizes to
“How I took over a company with 130 employees and learned to love data retention”, explains Julian Backes, Managing Director of the software house “DIaLOGIKa”, next Wednesday, 6.11.2019, from 16:15, in lecture hall 1 (building E1.3). Julian Backes foun
Das CISPA – Helmholtz Zentrum für Informationssicherheit stellt neue leitende Wissenschaftler ein. Wir suchen herausragende Forscher, die uns bei unserem wissenschaftlichen Herausforderungen unterstützen. Angeboten werden Positionen als Tenure-Track od
Stretchable circuits have the advantage that they also work in textiles such as clothing. However, their production is considered to be very costly. A new, simplified process has now been presented by two computer scientists from Saarland University. I
The Airbus A380 is the largest mass production civilian airliner. When the wide-bodied aircraft lands safely, its control software has launched countless components over 500 cable kilometers in time. The foundations for the automatic analysis of such t
The number of new students starting at Saarland University is, at over 2,300, currently slightly above last year’s level. In the winter semester, the total number of students at the university is predicted to level out around 16,800. In view of the dec