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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.
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 [...]
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