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Beim Bürgerfest zum Tag der Deutschen Einheit 2025 präsentiert sich die Universität des Saarlandes gemeinsam mit Forschungsinstituten und Partnereinrichtungen sowie dem Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes. An Info-Ständen werden zahlreiche Forschungsprojekte der Informatik, Medizin und Biowissenschaften sowie des Europa-Schwerpunkts der Universität präsentiert. Zudem gibt es für Kinder und Jugendliche vielfältige Mitmachangebote, bei denen diese auch selbst experimentieren können.
The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI – German Informatics Society) is awarding Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, long-time Chairman of the Management Board of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the prestigious Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science.
An international team of researchers, including mathematician Jonas Haferkamp from Saarland University, has discovered a new phenomenon in the world of quantum physics. States that appear completely random, without actually being so, are generated much faster than previously thought. This could significantly improve many quantum-physical applications. Due to its fundamental importance, the findings were published in the journal Science.
From September 1–5, 2025, the Saarland Informatics Campus will host the internationally renowned Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata Conference. Around 110 to 150 international participants are expected to attend – including leading researchers in logic, games, formal methods, verification, and algorithmic modeling.
You’re starting a computer science–related degree program this coming winter semester at Saarland University (e.g., Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Cybersecurity, Data Science & AI, Business Informatics, or Computer Science for Teaching)? Then the Math Prep Course is just right for you!
Satellite images, social media and barcode scanners in shops offer a wealth of data that has so far been little used in the social sciences. New AI-supported methods are helping with the evaluation, but they require a great deal of IT expertise and legal and ethical consideration. This interdisciplinary expertise is now to be pooled in a competence centre called ‘Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS)’.
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Kurt Mehlhorn, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, was honored with the Saarland Order of Merit on August 20, 2025, in Saarbrücken. Minister President Anke Rehlinger presented this highest award of the Saarland during a ceremony at the State Chancellery in Saarbrücken.
How can the certification of AI systems help regulate Artificial Intelligence and build trust in the technology? This is the question being explored by German and Brazilian research teams. The project brings together research groups from Saarland University and the University of São Paulo, with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Brazilian partner organization CAPES.
MPI-SWS-Fakultätsmitglied Peter Druschel wurde mit dem 2025 IEEE TCDP Outstanding Technical Achievement Award für seine bahnbrechenden Beiträge zum Entwurf und zur Implementierung großskaliger verteilter Systeme ausgezeichnet.
Computer scientist and CISPA faculty Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The grant, totaling €150,000, enables him to transfer the results of his ERC Advanced Grant project “S3 – Semantics of Software Systems” into practical application. In S3, Zeller is developing an intelligent software agent capable of automatically answering complex maintenance-related questions with high accuracy. The project holds the potential [...]
Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster, long-standing Scientific Director and current Chief Executive Advisor (CEA) of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), has been honored with the prestigious Rudolf Diesel Medal 2025 in the “Best Innovation Promotion” category. This award is considered the oldest innovation prize in Europe and was presented at a gala dinner in Augsburg on 10 July 2025.
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is a partner in the Southwest X startup and innovation ecosystem, which was named one of ten winning projects in the nationwide EXIST Lighthouse Competition Startup Factories organized by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
The computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures Strings, that is, character sequences of any kind such as texts in any natural language, appear everywhere in our daily lives, and they constitute some of the biggest datasets generated by humanity. Tomasz Kociumaka, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, has now received this year’s “Presburger Award” from the “European Association [...]
MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer and his collaborators made a very strong showing at the top programming language conferences this year. They received Distinguished Paper Awards for two papers at PLDI 2025 and one at POPL 2025. At PLDI this year, only 6 papers were given this award out of 89 accepted papers. At POPL this year, only 7 papers were given this award out of 81 accepted papers.
MPI-SWS faculty member Joël Ouaknine has received the 2025 LICS Test-of-Time award for his 2005 paper “On the Decidability of Metric Temporal Logic”. The work was done in collaboration [...]
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