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Open Day at Saarland University on 13 May

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 [...]

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Research training group in Saarbrücken treads new paths in Artificial Intelligence

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 [...]

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Max Planck Researchers honored for outstanding contributions to logic and computation

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.

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Many successes at CHI 2023

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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Europe’s largest computer graphics conference comes to Saarbrücken

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.

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