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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.
Saarbrücken is one of the worldwide epicenters of computer graphics research. Several groups at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence are addressing the issues of this research field at the highest international level. Now, from May 8 to 12, the 44th Eurographics Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, the largest computer graphics symposium in Europe, will take place at the Saarland Informatics Campus at Saarland University.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) AI Council today released a landmark report on advancing the global governance of artificial intelligence (AI) at the 2023 [...]
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 traditionally gives out its “Busy Beaver Award”, which honors lecturers who have distinguished themselves in the past semester through their special commitment to teaching.
Synthetic data for environmental protection, AI methods for the resilient and crisis-resistant manufacturing industry, quantum computing, dynamic supply chains and secure data spaces, smart farming, and agricultural robotics – with this spectrum of key topics, DFKI 2023 will be represented in three halls at the Hannover Messe. At the MWK Lower Saxony joint stand, Hall 2, Stand A40, the Saarland joint stand, Hall 2, B34, and at the Industrial Wireless Arena & 5G Networks in Hall 14, DFKI [...]
An ERC Grant is one of the most lucrative research prizes bestowed by the European Union. Professor Laurent Bartholdi of Saarland University has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant – the highest category of ERC Grant that can be given to an individual scholar. Over the next five years, mathematician Bartholdi plans to use the €2.5 million grant to study problems that are located at the boundary between mathematics and computer science. A further ERC Advanced Grant has been awarded to Professor [...]
Computer science professor Jens Dittrich and his team at Saarland University are developing a new approach to optimizing databases that looks set to turn previously used methodologies on their head –away from hand-crafted search methods and towards automatically generated ones. The team uses what are known as evolutionary algorithms to ‘breed’ the best possible results. The paper in which they present the concept has been published in the proceedings of one of the world’s largest [...]
After a two-year runtime, SYNAOS GmbH and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) successfully completed the satellite project BaSynaos. In BaSynaos, the software company SYNAOS and DFKI developed a joint online process planning for intralogistics and production driven by the open-source middleware for Industry 4.0 (BaSys). BaSynaos started on March 1, 2021, and was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) over a period of two years.
On the occasion of the International Week Against Racism, Minister President Anke Rehlinger visited Saarland University to learn about the topic of hate speech on the Internet. Computer linguists Dr. Thomas Kleinbauer and Professor Dietrich Klakow presented a project in which algorithms for the automatic classification of hate speech were developed. Professor Ingmar Weber presented the research field of “Societal Computing” together with his doctoral student Brahmani Nutakki.
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