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Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, Head of the VIA-Center with Shahram Izadi, Senior Director and Head of AR at Google.

Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Google launch strategic research partnership

In June, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany and Google have announced a strategic research partnership to start the "Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)" at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. During the opening event today, November 9, representatives from politics, science and industry are gathering in the Günter-Hotz lecture hall at Saarland University to learn more about the mission and research of the new Center.

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Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Google engage in a strategic research partnership

The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Informatics in Saarbrücken (Germany) and Google have agreed on a strategic partnership to establish the "Saarbrücken Research Center for Visual Computing, Interaction and Artificial Intelligence (VIA)" at the MPI for Informatics. The center will conduct basic research in frontier areas of computer graphics, computer vision, and human machine interaction, at the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The VIA center will be headed by Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt, scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

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Amazon and Max Planck Society establish Science Hub

Amazon and the Max Planck Society today announced the establishment of the first German Science Hub in Tübingen. The main goal of this science cooperation is to advance research in Germany in subfields of artificial intelligence (AI), in particular causality, computer vision and machine learning, to develop secure and trustworthy concepts for the future and thus to strengthen Germany as a technology location. Amazon is providing nearly 700,000 euros for this purpose in the first year. The cooperation is initially scheduled to run for five years.

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Training AI talents: Saarbrücken Becomes Part of the “Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence

Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems are part of one of only three newly established “Konrad Zuse Schools” for Artificial Intelligence, which are being set up by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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Triple honor for Saarbrücken Max Planck researchers

The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest and most important organization of computer scientists, has elected three researchers from the two Max Planck Institutes in Saarbrücken to Fellow status, the most prominent level of membership. In doing so, the ACM honors their fundamental contributions to modern computer science, with whose insights our current technology has been shaped.

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