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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.
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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.
Five centers at universities and the DFKI form the network of German Competence Centers for Research on Artificial Intelligence. They represent the central core of the German AI research ecosystem, helping to ensure that this research remains visible on an international scale.
At the high-tech and start-up trade fair Viva Technology in Paris (June 11 – 14, 2025), the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the French computer science institute Inria will present their cooperation for a European AI, perspectives for the transfer of AI technologies to the economy and a groundbreaking joint research project in the field of brain-computer interfaces at the French-German Tech Lab (Hall 1, Stand D11).
Saarland University is establishing a new Center for Quantum Technologies (QuTe) with over €53 million in funding from the Saarland state’s Transformation Fund. Supplemented by additional infrastructure investments and expected federal contributions, this represents one of the most significant research initiatives in the region’s history.
First Fully AI-Dubbed Film Launched in U.S. Theaters Dubbed films often suffer from mismatched lip movements and audio, which can disrupt the viewing experience. An internationally operating UK-based startup has now developed a solution to this problem—inspired by research from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany: using artificial intelligence, the system retroactively adjusts the actors’ lip movements in movies to match new target languages. The first [...]
The Saarland Ministry for Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy, in collaboration with the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC), has awarded the 2024 Journalism Award for Computer Science. The German Informatics Society serves as an institutional partner.
Computer science professor and CISPA researcher Andreas Zeller has now become the first German to receive an ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award. Zeller receives the award for “significant contributions and important innovations in automated software engineering education.” Andreas Zeller’s research on software security topics is highly influential internationally.
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