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The future of European industry will not be shaped solely by whether Europe can keep pace with the rapid development of artificial intelligence. Its competitiveness will depend above all on how successfully AI can be transferred from the digital domain into the physical world – into robots, production lines, logistics systems, and other technologies that underpin everyday life. This challenge was at the heart of the international RICAIP Days 2026, hosted in Prague by the Czech Institute of Informatics, [...]
With several papers presented at CVPR 2026, DFKI demonstrated the breadth of its research in visual AI. The spectrum ranged from 3D scene understanding and relational reasoning, through multimodal perception, to simulation, generation and workshop contributions.
The program for the 2026 edition of CMMRS is now online. This year’s lineup of lecturers and mentors once again includes international leaders as well as rising stars in their respective research fields. Lectures will cover a variety of cutting-edge topics in AI, NLP, formal methods, programming languages, and software engineering. Please note that attendance at this interactive mentoring school is limited to admitted students. The next application deadline will be in early 2027.
The Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs, in cooperation with the Saarland Informatics Campus, has presented the Journalism Prize for Informatics. The German Informatics Society is a partner of the prize. The main prizes were awarded to a radio feature by Austrian Broadcasting (ORF), an article from the magazine “c’t – Magazin für Computertechnik” , and an online piece by Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). A special prize was awarded to an article in the children’s science magazine “GEOlino.”
Whether guiding robots across factory floors or managing complex logistics operations, AI systems designed for automated planning can solve such problems. Earlier planning systems relied largely on symbolic techniques such as logic. In recent years, however, more and more methods from machine learning have been integrated to improve system performance. Computer scientist Daniel Höller now aims to develop AI planning systems that bring together the advantages of both approaches.
Prof. Dr. Karol Myszkowski is being honored with the “Outstanding Technical Contributions Award” from the European Association for Computer Graphics. This is the highest technical distinction in the European computer graphics community. Dr. Marc Habermann receives one of the two “Young Researcher Awards,” which annually recognize the most outstanding early-career scientists. The Eurographics Conference 2026 takes place from May 4 to 8 in Aachen, Germany.
AI agents have improved rapidly and demonstrate remarkable capabilities in areas such as communication and software programming. In this interview, MPI-SWS director Krishna Gummadi clarifies the characteristics of AI agents and discusses the benefits they offer people and the risks they pose to society.
Anthony W. Lin — Max Planck Fellow at MPI-SWS and CS professor at RPTU in Kaiserslautern — has received an Outstanding Paper Award at ICLR 2026, one of the flagship conferences in machine learning, for his work on “Transformers are Inherently Succinct” (https://openreview.net/forum?id=Yxz92UuPLQ)!
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have coauthored 20 papers at the LICS 2026 and ICALP 2026 conferences, two of the top conferences in theoretical computer science. LICS is the premier conference on logic in computer science and ICALP is the flagship conference of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
Kaiserslautern/Bremen/Hanover – The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is further expanding its international activities: At the Hannover Messe, the DFKI is signing two Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with Brazilian organizations in the field of artificial intelligence and applied research – its long-standing partner SENAI CIMATEC and the innovation hub NEXUS AI Campus. The agreements are part of German-Brazilian cooperation: Brazil is the partner country of this year’s [...]
How can artificial intelligence be effectively transitioned from research to real-world use? At Hannover Messe 2026, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) will demonstrate how AI solutions can be deployed in an economically viable, socially responsible, and technologically autonomous way. From April 20 to 24, DFKI will showcase practical AI technologies and transfer methods in Hall 11, Booth B30, as well as at partner booths, thereby strengthening Germany as an innovation hub and bridging scientific excellence and practical application.
Making virtual worlds tangible is one of the key challenges in the field of human-computer interaction. While vision and hearing are already well integrated into virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), the sense of touch still lags behind. The Sensorimotor Interaction group, led by Dr. Paul Strohmeier at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics, is researching how to change this. Two papers written by the group in collaboration with Saarland University and international partners will now [...]
The EATCS Award for the best theory paper at ETAPS 2026 was awarded to Isa Vialard, Joël Ouaknine and Quentin Guilmant for their paper “The value problem for weighted timed games with two clocks is undecidable”, published in FoSSaCS 2026. The EATCS award is given each year to the best ETAPS papers in theoretical computer science.
Am 22. April findet der UdS-KI-Tag für Studierende im Innovation Center (Gebäude A2 1) statt. Der Untertitel lautet: „Entdecke, wie KI dir hilft, effizienter zu studieren, dich gezielt auf deine berufliche Zukunft vorzubereiten und eigene Lernagenten zu entwickeln – präsentiert von der Universität des Saarlandes und dem AStA mit Microsoft als besonderem Gast“. Die Veranstaltung wird von der Stabsstelle Digitalisierung, ZeLL, dem Dezernat Lehre und Studium, dem DFKI und dem AStA organisiert
The Saarland state government announced last June that it would support the establishment of a Center for Quantum Technologies (QuTe) at Saarland University with more than €53 million in funding. Today, the center officially begins its work with a ceremonial kick-off event. Among those attending are Minister Jakob von Weizsäcker, University President Ludger Santen, and Astrid Lambrecht, Chair of the Board of Directors of Forschungszentrum Jülich, which will work closely with the new center.
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