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In the fight against Alzheimer’s disease: Saarbrücken bioinformatics professor to begin a one-year research stay at prestigious Stanford University in the US

Professor Andreas Keller from the Center for Bioinformatics at Saarland University is leading a research project at Stanford University in Silicon Valley for one year. The aim is to gain a better understanding of how diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s develop in the human body at the single-cell level. The aim is to identify such widespread diseases earlier and open up new therapeutic options. The Schaller-Nikolich Foundation in Heidelberg is financing the stay with one million US dollars.

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Film series “Artificial Intelligence in Cinema”: When the Care Robot Becomes an Accomplice

“Robot & Frank” is the second film in the film series “Artificial Intelligence in Cinema” and will be shown on April 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the cinema in the Filmhaus Saarbrücken. The story recounts the special friendship between a demented jewel thief and his care robot. Afterwards Jan Alexandersson, head of the Competence Center for Ambient Assisted Living (CCAAL) at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, will comment on the American independent film from [...]

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Professor of Computer Science named Honorary Citizen of the City of Saarbrücken

Yesterday evening Mayor Charlotte Britz awarded the honorary citizenship of the state capital Saarbrücken to Professor Wolfgang Wahlster. With this award, the city of Saarbrücken honors Wahlster’s achievements “in the successful establishment and further development of Saarbrücken as a leading location for information technology “. This makes Wahlster the first scientist to receive this honor. Wolfgang Wahlster, born in Saarbrücken in 1953, studied computer science and computational [...]

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IT incubator at Saarland University offers nationwide start-up program

“IT Inkubator GmbH“ at Saarland University is offering a new, nationwide start-up program to ensure that start-ups can be established more quickly and successfully. The aim is not only to transform the ideas and inventions developed on the Saarland Informatics Campus into products, services and spin-offs. Students and researchers from other universities and research institutes can also use the new program to set up companies or advance their technology to such an extent that established industrial [...]

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