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To set the stage for the upcoming semester, Saarbrücken Computer Science always hosts a kickoff event at the beginning the term to welcome new and returning students to the university. On this occasion, the Computer Science Students Representative Council gives out its “Busy Beaver Award”, which honors lecturers who have distinguished themselves in the past semester through their special commitment to teaching.
Computer scientist, founding director, and long-time CEO of DFKI, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Research, initiated by “manager magazin” in 2009, at a festive appointment ceremony at the New Institute in Hamburg on Oct. 12, 2023. Prof. Dr. Claudia Felser, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, was also honored. In addition, the Curious Minds Research Awards were presented to two young, excellent researchers in the [...]
Vahid Babaei, head of the research group “Artificial Intelligence aided Design and Manufacturing” at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, has been awarded the “Curious-Mind-Forscherpreis 2023” in the category “Digitization, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence”. The award recognizes young scientists under the age of 40 whose work not only demonstrates the highest level of academic excellence, but also indicates that it will provide impetus for the future of the German economy.
About 80 researchers from Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Austria will meet at the Saarland Informatics Campus from September 27 to 29 for a workshop entitled “Rigorous Dependability Analysis Using Model Checking Techniques for Stochastic Systems (ROCKS)”. The event is organized by Saarland University Professor Benjamin Kaminski, who heads the research group “Quantitative Verification”.
CERTAIN stands for “Centre for European Research in Trusted AI” and focuses on an approach that highlights the issue of “trust” in AI systems – an aspect that is often neglected in international research. The aim is to develop new technologies that provide functional and other guarantees for AI systems. The kick-off celebration, a milestone in supra-regional AI collaboration, will take place on September 19, 2023, in the Aula of Saarland University.
Computer scientist Anja Feldmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, has been awarded the prestigious Konrad Zuse Medal by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI; German Informatics Society). This medal is considered the highest accolade in the field of computer science in Germany. Feldmann receives this honor in recognition of her substantial contributions to computer networks and her research on internet traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The award ceremony will take place on September 28 at the GI’s INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2023 in Berlin.
Am 3. Oktober sind vier Schülerlabore der Universität des Saarlandes wieder mit von der Partie beim Türen-auf-Tag der „Sendung mit der Maus“. Von 10 bis 14 Uhr können Kinder von acht bis zwölf Jahren Spannendes aus der Welt der Wissenschaft und Forschung entdecken. Die Anmeldung für die begrenzten Plätze hat begonnen.
On September 7 and 8, the “Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC)” at Saarland University will open with a two-day symposium. The institute promotes interdisciplinary research at Saarland University and provides a platform for exchange between social sciences, humanities and computer science. It is headed by Ingmar Weber, Humboldt Professor of Artificial Intelligence, and Daniela Braun, Professor of Political Science.
The German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI) together with the DiSerHub and saaris as well as numerous partners from research, business, authorities, associations, politics and society are organising the first “Trusted AI Day” on September 19, 2023, hosted at the Saarland University campus.
The Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Cnr; ‘National Research Council’) and the Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI; ‘German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence’) signed a Scientific Cooperation Agreement on Friday in the setting of Villa Vigoni on Lake Como. The agreement was signed in recent days by Cnr President Maria Chiara Carrozza, and was signed at Villa Vigoni by DFKI CEO and scientific director Prof. Antonio Krüger.
Anja Feldmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and professor at Saarland University, has been awarded the 2024 “IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award”. This accolade is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the world’s most extensive technical professional association. The Internet expert Feldmann is being honored in particular for her pioneering research into a faster, more efficient and more stable Internet.
Saarland University has been awarded third place in the prestigious international Triple E Awards in the category “Entrepreneurial University of the Year” for Europe. The award recognises the university’s outstanding achievements in entrepreneurship and highlights its leading role in promoting innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.
Computer science professor Holger Hermanns and colleagues have been awarded the “Jean-Claude Laprie Award in Dependable Comptung” for a research paper in which they developed a new method for checking models. The prize is awarded annually since 2012 and acknowledges outstanding work that has significantly shaped the theory and practice of the research field “Dependable Computing”. The award ceremony will take place on 29 June in Porto, Portugal, at the 53rd “International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks”.
On 16th and 17th June, the Saarland Informatics Campus, in cooperation with the Jugend forscht e.V. foundation, is organising a training event for project-accompanying teachers of “Jugend forscht”. During the two-day qualification programme entitled “Awaken curiosity – experience STEM with Jugend forscht and extracurricular places of learning”, more than 30 teachers from all over Germany will be visiting the campus of Saarland University, learning about current research [...]
At the Saarbrücker Forschungstage on Computer Science, young computer science talents from all over Germany have the opportunity to take a first look at computer science studies and get to the bottom of current research questions together with students and scientists from Saarland University and the computer science institutes located at the site.
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