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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.
Imagine being able to try on different clothes on a virtual avatar and see how they look from every angle. Or adjusting the direction your pet is looking in your favorite photo. You could even change the perspective of a landscape picture. These types of photo edits have always been challenging, even for experts. A novel AI tool now promises that with just a few mouse clicks, anyone can achieve edits like these effortlessly. The method is being developed by a research team led by the Max Planck Institute [...]
In the 60th anniversary year of the signing of the Élysée Treaty, DFKI and Inria will present partner projects, startups, and their concept for Europe’s digital sovereignty at Viva Technology 2023, Paris, June 14-17. The French national research institute for computer science and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence will demonstrate computer-brain interfaces for use outside the lab, among other things. Together with eight other academic partners and the states of North [...]
Pills could soon be produced in shapes that resemble design objects. And this would not be just an aesthetic gimmick, but would serve to release active medical ingredients in the body in a controlled manner. A group of computer scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and the University of California at Davis have developed a process that uses a combination of computation and 3D printing to produce tablets that dissolve in liquids over a specified period of time. The [...]
During the Open Day on Saturday, 13 May 2023, from 10 am – 4 pm, Saarland University will showcase its range of courses and numerous research topics to the general public. The partners at the Saarland Informatics Campus will also present the wide range of computer science topics in information events. Besides introductory talks on the degree programs, there will be info-booths and participation events from various institutions, such as the Computer Science Student Advisory Service, the student [...]
AI tools like ChatGPT are currently taking the world by storm, but these systems come with risks of their own. They can, for example, reinforce racial prejudice, they can be used for novel forms of cyberattacks or they can simply generate inaccurate responses or misleading information. Due to the complexity of these systems and their lack of transparency, not even their developers know why their systems are making such mistakes. A new Research Training Group (RTG) at Saarland University will develop [...]
MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer and nine of his collaborators (including notably UdS/MPI alumnus Ralf Jung, as well as former MPI-SWS postdocs Jacques-Henri Jourdan and Aaron Turon and UdS/MPI student David Swasey) have received the 2023 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation for their seminal work on the Iris framework for higher-order concurrent separation logic.
From April 23-28 2023 the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) took place in Hamburg. CHI is the premier international conference of Human Computer Interaction and annually brings together researchers and practitioners from all over the world.
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