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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.
Lisa Marie Rolli’s academic journey is one for the books. What began as a spark of curiosity for chemistry and programming has led her to study Bioinformatics at Saarland University, where she started working as a research assistant in her early semesters. Throughout her Bachelor’s and Master’s education, she focused on reliability and interpretability in AI.
On April 3, 14 girls aged 10 to 16 visited the Saarbrücken MPIs for Girls’ Day. The “Girls’ Day – Future Prospects for Girls” is a nationwide initiative in Germany aimed at inspiring girls to explore professions in which women are still underrepresented, particularly in fields such as IT, engineering, natural sciences, and technology.
Der Informatiker Dr. Martin Schmitz ist mit dem Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) ausgezeichnet worden. Das teilte die DFG heute mit. Der mit 200.000 Euro dotierte Preis gilt als einer der renommiertesten Preise im deutschsprachigen Raum für Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in einem frühen Karrierestadium.
The Saarbrücken team secures a place in the world championship, ranking among the top three German teams. The team from Saarland University won a silver medal at the European Championship of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). This achievement secured the team, jointly trained by Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, a spot at the world championship, which will take place in September 2025 in Baku, Azerbaijan. With this Saarland University has [...]
Professor Derek Dreyer, scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Photo: Oliver Dietze Professor Derek Dreyer, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), has recently received two prestigious international awards recognizing his research. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest scientific society in computer science, has named him an ACM Fellow. Additionally, at the 2025 edition of the “Symposium on Principles [...]
Welche Chancen bietet Künstliche Intelligenz in der Medizin? Ist autonomes Fahren eine erreichbare – und wünschenswerte – technologische Realität? Können wir tatsächlich Wörter aus Gehirnströmen entschlüsseln? Gibt es gute und böse KI? Die rasante Entwicklung von Künstlicher Intelligenz wirft viele solcher Fragen auf. Mit einer neuen Vortragsreihe in Kooperation mit der vhs Regionalverband Saarbrücken möchte das DFKI Licht ins Dunkel bringen. Wissenschaftler vom DFKI Saarbrücken [...]
The Academia Europaea, the Pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences based in London, has inducted CISPA-Faculty Professor Dr. Andreas Zeller as a member. Membership in the Academia Europaea is by invitation only and it requires sustained academic excellence with international impact. Andreas Zeller receives this honor for his influential research in the field of software testing and analysis. The Academia Europaea currently counts 374 computer scientists among its members, 46 of whom are from Germany.
Werden mit KI erzeugte Fake-Videos die US-Präsidentenwahl beeinflussen? Wie können Algorithmen helfen, einen solchen Schwindel rasch zu enttarnen? Um bei der rasanten Entwicklung neuer Technologien noch durchzublicken, ist fundierter Journalismus gefragt. Die Medien sollten der breiten Öffentlichkeit vermitteln, welch enorme gesellschaftliche Relevanz in vielen Themen der Informatik steckt. Die besten Beiträge aus dem Jahr 2024 werden daher mit dem Journalismuspreis Informatik geehrt
Arata Jingu, a PhD student in Professor Jürgen Steimle’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab at Saarland University, has been awarded a Google PhD Fellowship. These prestigious fellowships are awarded annually to researchers worldwide who are making outstanding and innovative contributions to computer science and related disciplines.
So-called ‘discrete dynamical systems’ form the basis for key computational challenges in a variety of fields, from program analysis and computer-aided verification to artificial intelligence and theoretical biology. Creating algorithmic solutions to make these systems amenable to automated verification techniques remains a major challenge. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken and the French ‘Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’ are now working [...]
Deep learning is an AI technology that has significantly shaped the last decade, whether it’s recognizing medical conditions, creative applications for text or image generation, or autonomous driving. However, despite much progress, machine learning’s successes, especially in autonomous driving, have fallen short of expectations. Accenture and DFKI’s joint white paper, “Responsible AI in the Automotive Industry – Techniques and Use Cases,” is dedicated to finding the reasons and proposing new technological approaches.
What do underwater seagrass beds look like and why are they so important? What ecosystems are there in the deep sea? What is the environmental status of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea? And how will the problem of munitions dumps in the sea be solved?
Schwarz Digits and Deutsche Bahn announce the founding of DataHub Europe with strong media and AI partners – [...]
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