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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.
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