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CISPA researcher Andreas Zeller awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant for project on AI-powered software maintenance

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 [...]

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Professor Wolfgang Wahlster Honored with the Rudolf Diesel Medal 2025

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.

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EATCS Presburger Award for Tomasz Kociumaka

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 [...]

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DEREK DREYER AND COLLABORATORS RECEIVE THREE DISTINGUISHED PAPER AWARDS AT PLDI’25 AND POPL’25

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.  

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