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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 [...]
Tomohiro Nagashima, Junior Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University, has been appointed a Henriette Herz Scout by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This distinction enables him to nominate three promising international researchers. Following a formal review, these candidates will be awarded a research fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation, allowing them to conduct research at Saarland University for a period of six months to two years.
Forschungstage supports the next generation of scientists with lectures, workshops, and insights into latest computer science [...]
As part of our periodic evolution and development, MPI-SWS organized an (in-person) symposium on research topics of emerging interest in the broad area of software systems. We invited six top researchers from around the world to participate: Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley), Alexandra Silva (Cornell University), Maria Christakis (TU Wien), Stefanie Jegelka (TU Munich), Zeynep Akata (Helmholtz Munich & TU Munich), and Elissa Redmiles (Georgetown University).
Am 2. und 3. Juli 2025 wird das Innovation Center der Universität des Saarlandes zum zentralen Treffpunkt für digitale Zukunftsthemen. Das Südwest Digital Festival vereint unter dem Motto “Künstliche Intelligenz erleben. Digitale Innovationen gestalten.” führende Akteure aus Startups, Mittelstand, Forschung und Industrie.
A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) that can learn in a more “reasonable” way – this is what scientists at the new Cluster of Excellence “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI) are researching under the leadership of TU Darmstadt. Isabel Valera, Professor of Machine Learning at Saarland University, is also part of the core team as an external scientist and was delighted to receive approval for the new Cluster of Excellence yesterday.
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