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It’s a mind sport that many people don’t know about, but which is easily comparable to well-known disciplines such as chess or Go in terms of excitement and complexity – competitive programming. It involves solving highly complicated algorithmic problems under time pressure. A team of computer science students from Saarland University has won a silver medal in a European competition and thus has the best chance of qualifying for the world championships. They were the best German team in the competition.
Modern software systems already control critical infrastructures, factories, self-driving cars and smart homes. The problem is that many of these systems have become so complex that no expert can understand if, how and why they work. Scientists at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and Dresden University of Technology are jointly researching mechanisms to make the behavior of complex software systems comprehensible [...]
In an old tradition of Saarbrücken Computer Science, students, faculty and staff of all partners of the Saarland Informatics Campus have organized a torchlight procession to honor the professors Martina Maggio and Isabel Valera. The aim is to convince the professors, both of whom have received calls to other universities, not to leave Saarland University. Despite cold weather and a drizzle around 90 participants came to the torchlight procession.
Joint press release by the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Google [...]
Anomalies and defects in the production process cause high costs and have a negative impact on sustainability and productivity. If it is possible to detect such defects immediately when they occur, then cost-intensive reworking, time-consuming final inspections, and delivery delays can be avoided. The German-Czech research project AIQUAMA (AI-based Quality Management for Smart Factories) investigates the use of artificial intelligence in the quality management of production processes. The goal is [...]
At its meeting on 03.11.2022 in Bremen, the DFKI Supervisory Board elected Dr. Ferri Abolhassan, Deutsche Telekom AG, as its new Chairman. The previous DFKI Supervisory Board Chairman, Dr. Gabriël Clemens, said goodbye after his three-year term of office had come to an end. Under his chairmanship, DFKI was able to increase its financial volume from €56.6 million in 2019 to an estimated €82.8 million in 2022. The Supervisory Board elected State Secretary Elena Yorgova-Ramanauskas, Ministry of [...]
During the kickoff event of the winter semester 2022/23, the Computer Science Student Council again presented its “Busy Beaver” Award. With this award, the student council of the computer science programs recognizes lecturers who have distinguished themselves during the past semester through special commitment in teaching.
In contrast to tech large corporations, small and medium-sized companies can usually only draw on a few dialogs with customers to develop chatbots for customer conversations. A research network involving scientists from Saarland University wants to change that. The project partners want to develop a voice dialog system that works with small amounts of data, but in the end is just as good as a system from an IT corporation. “SLIK – Synthesis of Linguistic Korpus Data” is funded by the BMBF.
Dr. Andrea Volkamer, currently an assistant professor at Charité in Berlin, received her certificate of appointment as a university professor at the Ministry of Finance [...]
Hans-Peter Seidel, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Honorary Professor at Saarland University, has been honored by the world’s largest computer science association, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his seminal contributions to the research field of computer graphics.
Saarland University computer science professor Jörg Hoffmann has achieved several successes with his research group “Foundations of Artificial Intelligence” at a leading international conference in a subfield of AI research, the “International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)”. Former doctoral student Daniel Gnad wins the conference’s dissertation award, and an exceptionally large proportion of the research papers accepted at the conference was co-authored by the group.
Combining research strength and integration expertise: Arvato Systems and the Smart Service Engineering research department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) have established a sales and development partnership. The common strategic goal of the partnership is to optimally support customers on their way to becoming a data-driven company with the help of new innovations in the field of artificial intelligence.
With the “Log4Shell” vulnerability one of the biggest digital risks of recent years was exposed, and deepfakes of ukranian president Zelensky were used for disinformation in the Ukraine crisis. These examples alone show: Topics in computer science have enormous social relevance. That is why the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digital and Energy, in cooperation with the Saarland Informatics Campus, honors outstanding journalistic pieces about informatics – under a new name as the ” Journalism Prize for Informatics”.
Prof. Derek Dreyer, head of the Foundations of Programming research group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern since 2008, and an Honorarprofessor of Saarland University since 2017, has been appointed as a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Scientific Director of MPI-SWS as of May 1, 2022.
The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken (Germany) and Google have agreed on a strategic partnership to establish the “Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)” at the MPI for Informatics. The center will conduct basic research in frontier areas of computer graphics, computer vision, and human machine interaction, at the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The VIA center will be headed [...]
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