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Seven projects from SIC retained for funding in the joint funding scheme from Saarland and Intel

Chip manufacturer Intel and the Saarland are supporting innovative research projects in computer science. A corresponding cooperation agreement was signed last year. Seven research projects have now been presented at a kick-off event, which are funded equally by Intel and the state as part of the “Future of Graphics and Media” program. All of the projects were initiated by institutions based at the Saarland Informatics Campus.

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Max Planck Director Anja Feldmann appointed ACM Fellow

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the largest and most prestigious international scientific society in the field of computer science, has named Anja Feldmann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Professor at Saarland University, an “ACM Fellow”. This honors her influential contributions to the data-driven analysis of operational networks. Worldwide, only 68 new ACM Fellows were named for 2023. 

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Gerhard Weikum received honorary doctorate from University of athens

Saarbrücken Max Planck Director and Professor at Saarland University, Gerhard Weikum, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His scientific contributions to computer science in the fields of databases, the World Wide Web and artificial intelligence were particularly decisive.

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Saarbrücken mathematician appointed to prestigious visting research professorship in the USA

Prof. Frank Olaf-Schreyer has been appointed to a research professorship at the world-renowned Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley. From 2002 until his retirement in the summer semester of 2023, mathematician Schreyer held a bridge professorship for mathematics and computer science at Saarland University, where he conducted research into algebraic geometry and algorithmic algebraic geometry. As part of the Mirzakhani Research Professorship, [...]

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