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Research focuses on fairness in allocation problems.

The fellowship is in the area of Algorithms and Optimization.

Research focuses on algorithms and machine learning

The new method leverages a subtle feature in the Secure Shell authentication protocol.

Minister President Rehlinger presented the order during a ceremonial event at the Saarland State Chancellery.

The computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures

The award is given for fundamental work on learning powerful representations for image and video recognition from reduced supervision.

Mojtaba Bemana receives Eurographics dissertation award.

The distinctions recognize his outstanding contributions to computer graphics research.

A new approach brings fresh momentum to "Dijkstra’s Algorithm", a decades-old fundamental problem in computer science.

The Saarbrücken team secures a place in the world championship, ranking among the top three German teams.

Jan Eric Lenssen, head of the research group “Geometric Representation Learning” at the Saarbrücken Max Planck Institute for Informatics, has been awarded the 2024 Dissertation Award by the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA).

Paul Strohmeier has been bestowed with an ERC Grant to research and develop algorithms to vibrate actuators in such a way that they generate sensations of movement. Strohmeier's research focuses on Kinesthetic Displays, a new class of devices that enable us to experience and perceive movements, even those we do not physically perform.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the largest and most prestigious international scientific society in the field of computer science, has named Anja Feldmann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Professor at Saarland University, an "ACM Fellow". This honors her influential contributions to the data-driven analysis of operational networks. Worldwide, only 68 new ACM Fellows were named for 2023.

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has bestowed the title of an honorary doctor (doctor honoris causa) on Gerhard Weikum, in recognition of his contributions to the fields of databases, world wide web, and artificial intelligence.