{"id":18118,"date":"2023-10-23T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saarland-informatics-campus.de\/?post_type=sic_news&#038;p=18118"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:07:08","slug":"saarbruecken-computer-science-starts-into-winter-semester-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"sic_news","link":"https:\/\/saarland-informatics-campus.de\/en\/piece-of-news\/saarbruecken-computer-science-starts-into-winter-semester-2023-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Saarbr\u00fccken Computer Science Starts into Winter Semester 2023\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>To set the stage for the upcoming semester, Saarbr\u00fccken 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 \u201cBusy Beaver Award\u201d, which honors lecturers who have distinguished themselves in the past semester through their special commitment to teaching.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around 350\u00a0students attended the introductory event for the winter semester 23\/24 in the G\u00fcnter-Hotz lecture hall at Saarland University.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the kickoff event was again the presentation of the \u201cBusy Beaver Awards\u201d by the Computer Science Students Representative Council. The following courses of the summer semester 2023 were awarded: In the category \u201cBasic Lectures\u201d the award goes to \u201cConcurrent Programming\u201d by\u00a0<strong>Professor Holger Hermanns <\/strong><strong>and<\/strong><strong> Felix Freiberger<\/strong>. The winner in the category \u201eCore- and Advanced Lectures\u201d is\u00a0<strong>Dr. Katharina Krombholz<\/strong>\u00a0with the course \u201cUsable Security &amp; Privacy\u201d, a block course of the winter semester 22\/23.\u00a0<strong>Professor Andreas Zeller und Dr. Dominic Steinh\u00f6fel<\/strong> were awarded for the seminar \u201cSpecification Based Testing and Debugging\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the introductory event, there was a social get-together where the participants started the new semester in a relaxed atmosphere. The event was organized by the Department of Computer Science at Saarland University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background Saarland Informatics Campus:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>900 scientists (including 400 PhD students) and about 2500 students from more than 80 nations make the Saarland Informatics Campus (SIC) one of the leading locations for computer science in Germany and Europe. Four world-renowned research institutes, namely the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the Center for Bioinformatics as well as Saarland University with three departments and 24 degree programs cover the entire spectrum of computer science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To set the stage for the upcoming semester, Saarbr&uuml;cken Computer Science always hosts a kickoff event at the beginning the term to welcome new and returning students to the university. 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