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Am 05.02.2019 besuchte Bundesforschungsministerin Anja Karliczek das Helmholtz-Zentrum für Informationssicherheit in Saarbrücken. Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler gaben mittels anschaulichen Demonstratoren Einblick in fünf ausgewählte Forsc
Welche zentralen Herausforderungen die europäische Cybersicherheitsforschung in den kommenden Jahren bewältigen will, haben zahlreiche Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler am Dienstag, den 5.2.2019, in Brüssel vorgestellt. Die Roadmap “Cybersecurit
For the sixth time, the magazine “Cicero” has chosen the top 500 of all German-speaking intellectuals. This time, it also includes Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, who taught computer science at Saarland University until the end of 2018 and headed the Germ
The Future Skills “university pearl”, an award of the Stifterverband (Donors’ Association), will go to Saarland University in January 2019. Teachers of computer science and philosophy have jointly developed the lecture “Ethics for Nerds”, which teaches
A long-standing problem both within research and in society generally is that of how to analyze data about people without risking the privacy of those people. There is an ever-growing amount of data about people: medical, financial, social, government,
MPI-SWS Director Paul Francis and his group have launched the Open GDA Score Project at www.gda-score.org. This is an open project to develop a set of tools and databases to generate anonymity scores for any data anonymization technique. The GDA Score
How can Parkinson’s disease be detected early? A research team from the University of Luxembourg and Saarland University is looking for answers to this question and was awarded a prize sponsored by SaarLB in the “Networks of Excellence in the Greater R
Auf Einladung des Tagesspiegels kommentierte CISPA-Wissenschaftlerin Ninja Marnau im Background Digitalisierung den „Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace“, eine internationale Übereinkunft, in
This evening, State Secretary Jürgen Lennartz will present the Journalist Prize for Computer Science awarded by the Saarland State Chancellery. The main prizes in the categories print, radio and television will go to editors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
Felix Klein, PhD student at the Chair of Computer Graphics at Saarland University, was honored with the German Developer Award in the category “Best Indie Game” on December 5th in Cologne for the game “Crosscode” which he conceived and developed. “Indi
NVIDIA is a leader in the manufacture of graphics processors and computer chips for personal computers and game consoles. Speaking to 1,200 experts at the SIGGRAPH Conference in Vancouver, Canada in August 2018, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a fund
Specialists who evaluate data for companies using mathematical methods and thus secure a lead in the race for customers and profits are desperately sought after. The data science start-up “d:AI:mond ” from the Saarbrücken Informatics Campus at Saarland
Since Tuesday, an oak statue several meters high has been standing in front of the building of the Helmholtz Centre for Information Security (CISPA). “We watch over your security! Our new landmark symbolizes protection, defensive capability and ambitio
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a worldwide professional association of engineers, has appointed Professor Michael Backes, Scientific Director of the Helmholtz Centre for Information Security (CISPA) in Saarbrücken, German
Just as in 2018, MPI-SWS researchers again authored a total of five POPL papers in 2019:Bridging the Gap Between Programming Languages and Hardware Weak Memory Models by Anton Podkopaev, Ori Lahav, and Viktor Vafeiadis.From Fine- to Coarse-Grained Dyna
According to the CHE ranking of master’s degree programs published today, Saarland University is the leader in both subjects. The ranking is based on the evaluations of the local students. The Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) assesses thes
Since its founding at the end of 2004, MPI-SWS has been fortunate to have been the academic home of many amazing doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. With the ten-year anniversary of the graduation of our first students coming up soon, we wanted
Weltweit erheben Wissenschaftler Patientendaten, um für die Volkskrankheiten wie Demenz, Schlaganfall oder Tumorerkrankungen neue Therapien zu entwickeln. Diese Daten stammen etwa aus Blutproben oder Röntgenbildern und werden als multimediale Inhalte a
Even experts have less and less of an understanding of the behavior of complex software systems nowadays. Meanwhile, these systems are increasingly involved in our daily lives, whether as intelligent home automation, in autonomous vehicles or in indust