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In the Audio Devices: Synthesis, Control, & Performance seminar taught by Paul Strohmeier, senior researcher at @mpiinf, #SaarlandInformaticsCampus students built their own electronic instruments.
They presented them at The Commune, and art met technology for a night.
Congrats to Strohmeier and the students on a great show! 👏
#saarlanduniversity #uds #SIC #computerscience #humancomputerinteraction #digitalmusic #artandtechnology
Master’s, PhD, postdoc? Most postdocs would say it's a lot of hard work and discipline. According to Anna, it’s those, plus a bunch of happy accidents.
We interviewed Otto Hahn Medal winner & former @mpiinf postdoc Anna Kukleva on her journey and research.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/kukleva
#computervision #womeninstem #computerscience #maxplanckinstituteforinformatics #saarlandinformaticsCampus #research
After #OpenAI’s new model hacked into HuggingFace’s systems, AI safety concerns have skyrocketed.
To address the concerns, #SaarlandUniversity professor and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence CEO Philipp Slusallek spoke to the Saarländischer Rundfunk.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/interview
#SaarlandInformaticsCampus #SIC #artificialintelligence #huggingface #europeanai #computerscience #cybersecurity #airesearch #responsibleai
🧠 How does the brain respond to confusing code?
#SaarlandUniversity computer scientists Sven Apel and Vera Demberg worked with psychologist Axel Mecklinger to see.
What they found was surprising: when the programmers came across something confusing, their brain activity carried similarities to that of people reading sentences with plot twists.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/softwareeeg
#computerscience #saarlandinformaticscampus #neuroscience #softwareengineering #research
📣🚨 Reminder: Applications for the English Computer Science and Cybersecurity B.Sc. programs close on July 15!
Already applied? Apply to our Honors Program, where you'll find an environment to thrive.
*The Honors Program is an addition to the B.Sc. courses. You have to be registered in a B.Sc. program in the Department of Computer Science to be a part of it.
🔗 More information: https://sic.link/udshp
#saarlandinformaticscampus #computerscience #saarlanduniversity #cybersecurity
#SaarlandUniversity Professor Andreas Keller and his team receive $9 million in funding to uncover age, sex, and environment related patterns affecting Parkinson's disease progression. They aim to find patterns allowing better individual therapies for patients. 👏
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/aiparkinson
#bioinformatics #saarlandinformaticscampus #sic #uds #computerscience #drugdesign #parkinsons #CollaborativeResearchNetwork
Wie verändert KI unseren Alltag und unsere Zukunft? 🤖
🎤 Erlebe beim Offenen Campus eine spannende Live-Debatte über Chancen, Herausforderungen und die Zukunft von KI. Bring deine Fragen mit und diskutiere mit!
KI-Studium? Schau um 15:30 Uhr bei der DSAI-Vorstellung vorbei oder besuche unseren SIC-Stand!
#SIC #uds #Universitatdessaarlandes #saarlandinformaticscampus #informatikstudieren #KI #AI
You can PRE-ORDER #SIC T-shirts now! 👕
Meet our new T-shirts: unisex, 100% COTTON ☁️, in six sizes and two colors — #SIC blue & white!
Pre-order for €20 until April 17, 2026. Pickup starts May 25, 2026.
🎟️👀 Every pre-order enters a raffle to win one FREE!
Not sure about your size? Try it on at the CS Students’ Council office.
🔗 Info + order: https://sic.link/shirts
#saarlanduniversity #saarlandinformaticscampus #universitylife #universitymerch #campuslife
🚀 As we move closer to life in space, understanding how it affects our bodies is becoming increasingly important.
A team led by Prof. Andreas Keller, with Stanford University colleagues, investigated how spaceflight alters the information exchange within cells.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/spaceflight
#bioinformatics #saarlanduniversity #saarlandinformaticscampus #spaceflight #spaceresearch #spacebioinformatics #genomics #spacemedicine #astronauthealth #lifeinspace #naturecommunications
What a moment to be part of! The graduation ceremony at #SaarlandInformaticsCampus brought together students, families, and colleagues to celebrate the class of 2025 🎓 — and the joy in the room was hard to miss.
Congratulations to all our graduates, including the winners of the FdSI Bachelor-Preis and the Günter-Hotz-Medaille! 👏
📸 Check out the photo highlights below.
🎞️ Watch the full group video here: https://sic.link/19
🏆 Congrats to CISPA researcher and Saarland University Professor Andreas Zeller on becoming the second German to receive the most important research award in software engineering — the Harlan D. Mills Award of the IEEE Computer Society!
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/zeller
#computerscience #softwareengineering #SIC #saarlanduniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #uds #HarlanDMillsAward #IEEEComputerSociety #IEEE #ACM #cybersecurity
🏆 Saarbrücken now houses 11 ACM Fellows — about 1/3 of all ACM Fellows in Germany — highest of any location nationwide. This year, only 3 new Fellows in Germany were named, and Saarland University software engineering professor Sven Apel was one!
Congrats, Prof. Apel! 👏
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/apel
#SIC #saarlandinformaticscampus #UdS #saarlanduniversity #softwareengineering #associationforcomputingmachinery #ACMfellowship #research #computerscience #softwareresearch #topingermany
Congrats to #CISPA researcher and Saarland University professor @AndreasZeller on his IEEE Fellowship for his exceptional contributions to software analysis and development! 👏
Fellow is the top membership grade, awarded to under 0.1% of members each year.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/ieee
#saarlandinformaticscampus #saarlanduniversity #uds #sic #CISPA #softwareengineering #softwaresecurity #softwareanalysis #softwaredevelopment #IEEEFellowship #cybersecurity
Congrats to Prof. Dr. Ingmar Weber on his AAAI Fellowship! The fellowship honors individuals with significant contributions to #AI.
Working in societal computing, he bridges AI and the social sciences, analyzing social platform data for valuable insights on society. 👏
Read more: https://sic.link/weber
#saarlandinformaticscampus #saarlanduniversity #AAAIFellowship #ArtificialIntelligence #computationalsocialscience #ethicalai #responsibleai #societalcomputing #I2SC #computerscience
Time to close the books for the year! 📚✨
The Campus Library is taking a short break to recharge for the year ahead. Here are our holiday hours:
🔒 Closed: Dec 24th – Jan 4th
🔓 We reopen: Jan 5th
Wishing everyone happy holidays and a great start to the New Year! See you in 2026 ❄️
#SaarlandInformaticsCampus #CampusLibrary #SIC #UniSaarland #UdS #HolidayClosure #WinterBreak #StudyBreak #HappyHolidays
Are you an international researcher interested in ethical AI in education? Good news — Prof. Nagashima is hiring another Postdoc (as a Humboldt Fellow) to LaLa Lab!
🎤 Read his interview to see what he looks for in candidates: https://sic.link/lalalab
📄 Application requirements: https://sic.link/fellowship
#computerscience #AIinEducation #EthicalAI #LaLaLab #SaarlandUniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #LearningSciences #ArtificialIntelligence #EdTechResearch #InterdisciplinaryResearch
Spotify Wrapped may have just dropped – but do you know what else has? The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list, basically academic citations wrapped. 😌📚
Congrats to Saarland University’s Prof. Dr. Andreas Keller for making it to the list for the third time in a row!
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/keller
#saarlanduniversity #bioinformatics #HighlyCitedResearchers #Saarbruecken #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #HighlyCitedResearchers2025 #centerforbioinformatics #sic #computerscience
🔥 Last week, Computer Science and Language Science and Technology students joined forces for a torch run to honor Prof. Dr. Alexander Koller. They were joined by staff and faculty.
Result? An #SIC evening where we united for our passion for teaching and research.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/torchlight
#SaarlandInformaticsCampus #SaarlandUniversity #ComputationalLinguistics #StudentEngagement #AcademicCommunity
🏆 Congrats to Professor Reinhard Wilhelm for being awarded the 2025 ACM SIGBED Technical Achievement Award!
His work in WCET analysis has shaped safe embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems used worldwide, from aircraft control to medical devices.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/profwilhelmacm
📸 © Iris Maurer
#UdS #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #saarlanduniversity #Saarbrücken #Saarland #realtimesystems #embeddedsystems #cyberphysicalsystems #ACM #computerscience #WCETAnalysis #AbsInt
Telling AI content from real content has been getting harder and harder.
To overcome this, the masses have requested labels for AI videos. But DFKI Saarbrücken's Prof. Philipp Slusallek suggests a different approach: label what's real, so people know what to trust.
🇩🇪 Read more: https://sic.link/slusallek
#SIC #UdS #saarlanduniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIGeneratedContent #DFKI #EthicalAI #AIVideos #AIContent
🤖 Using AI while coding? Think again.
🖥️ A study conducted by Prof. Dr Sven Apel and his team shows that, compared to human partners, developers working with AI assistants approach code less critically and experience less knowledge transfer.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/software
#UdS #SaarlandUniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SoftwareEngineering #PairProgramming #KnowledgeTransfer
🎉 Three #SIC scientists join the Emmy Noether Programme (DFG), launching three new Junior Research Groups in AI, optimization & ML — strengthening #Saarbrücken’s CS leadership as one of Germany’s leading computer science centers!
Congrats Drs. Lenssen, Węgrzycki & Hahn! 👏
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/emmy
#SaarlandInformaticsCampus #SIC #EmmyNoetherProgramme #DFG #ComputerScience #AI #MachineLearning #DataScience #Saarbrücken #SaarlandUniversity #UdS #MPIINF #LanguageScienceandTechnology
📰 Fundierter Journalismus hilft, die schnelle technologische Entwicklung zu verstehen und zeigt, wie wichtig Informatik für die Gesellschaft ist.
🏅 Die besten Beiträge 2025 werden mit dem Journalismuspreis Informatik ausgezeichnet.
📅 Bewerbungen bis 16.01.2026.
Mehr info: https://sic.link/journalismuspreis
#journalismuspreisinformatik #journalismuspreis2025 #uds #saarlanduniversity #saarlandinformaticscampus #sic #Informatik #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #TechJournalismus #Wissenschaftskommunikation
📰 This week at #SIC: Prof. Dr. Sven Apel, Chair of Software Engineering, and Dr. Marvin Wyrich, software engineering researcher at Saarland University, highlight the importance of science communication in November’s CACM issue!
📰 Read: https://sic.link/silentscientist
📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs
#SoftwareEngineering #ScienceCommunications #AcademicResearch #SoftwareResearch #ResearchCommunity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #STEM #SoftwareDevelopment #SIC #SaarlandUniversity #UdS
🏅Big news from #SIC: Congrats to Wolfgang Wahlster, Professor Emeritus at Saarland University and Founding Director of #DFKI, for receiving the Konrad Zuse medal for Services to Computer Science!
Read more: https://sic.link/wahlster
#SIC #UdS #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #SaarlandUniversity #DFKI #GesellschaftFürInformatik #GI #KonradZuseMedal #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #AIResearch #Innovation #WolfgangWahlster
⌨️ Code breaks. We fix it.
That’s debugging — frustrating, yes, but also where good code is born ;)
At SIC, researchers explore smarter, automated ways to track down bugs and build more reliable software 🐞💻
#saarlandinformaticscampus #debugging #softwaretesting #bug #programming
German Unity Day celebrates the reunification of East and West Germany. This year, Saarland is hosting the festivities!
We will be in Saarbrücken, Mainzerstraße 3, joined by DFKI, @mpiinf, MPI-SWS, and LZI, to celebrate German Unity Day with you! 🥳
🔗 Find our full program here: https://sic.link/burgerfest
#TDE25 #ZukunftDurchWandel #saarlanduniversity #SIC #UdS #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #saarland #tagderdeutscheneinheit #informatik #computerscience #GermanUnityDay #universitätdessaarlandes
A new semester at SIC is here! Join our welcome events to meet people, get key info & settle into uni life:
👉 Meet-Up with the Study Coordinator
👉 Info Day for First-Year Students
👉 Program-Specific Welcome Events
👉 StEP (student-led introduction)
👉 Welcome Event by the CS Department
Start strong—we can’t wait to see you!
🔗 For more: https://sic.link/semesterinfos
#studyingermany #saarlandinformaticscampus #universitylife #studentlife #internationalstudents
#backtocampus
🏅 Saarbrücken receives 2 #ERC Starting Grants in computer science this year, more than any other institution in Germany!
Congrats to Dr. Mariya Toneva and Dr. Franziska Boenisch!
💶 Each project will receive €1.5M over 5 years.
🔗 Read more here:
➡️ https://sic.link/mariya
➡️ https://sic.link/franziska
#SIC #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #saarlanduniversity #uds #computerscience #ERCGrants #ERCStartingGrants #STEM #researchfunding #womeninstem #artificialintelligence #ai #machinelearning #neuroscience
🏃➡️ This week, between September 1-5, Saarland Informatics Campus is hosting the internationally renowned Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata conference!
🌍 150+ researchers worldwide are attending for the latest developments in logic, verification, and more.
Full program here: https://sic.link/hl2025
#highlights2025 #saarlandinformaticscampus #sic #saarlanduniversity #uds #highlightsconference2025 #computerscience #saarbrücken #networking #academicconference #collaborativeresearchweek
🏅We're proud to announce that Professor Emeritus Kurt Mehlhorn of #SIC was awarded with the Saarland Order of Merit!
As founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, he helped shape Saarland Informatics Campus into one of Europe's leading computer science centers.
Read more here: https://sic.link/saarmerit
#saarlanduniversity #saarlandinformaticscampus #kurtmehlhorn #informatics #computerscience #mpiinf #saarland #saarbrücken #saarlandorderofmerit #SaarländischerVerdienstorden
📥 Last month, DFKI’s Prof. Josef van Genabith & Simon Ostermann spoke to t-online on how Gmail's auto translate could've altered words on their newsletter and disrupted the reporting of recent events: sic.link/tonline
In the age of misinformation, we thank them for speaking out about the issue! 🙏
#ArtificialIntelligence #machinelearning #translation #dfki #saarlanduniversity #saarlandinformaticscampus #aiethics #responsibleai #languagemodels #nlp #technews #sciencenews #machinelearningnews
Trustworthy AI isn’t luck—it’s certified.
DFG & CAPES fund a new project linking Saarland University / Saarland Informatics Campus and the Institute of Legal Informatics to turn the EU AI Act into certifiable, transparent systems.
🗓 1 Aug · free online workshop on AI certification
🔗 For more: https://sic.link/z
#TrustworthyAI #AICertification #EUAI #SaarlandUniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus
Are you considering a PhD or postdoc in neuroexplicit modelling for language, vision, or action? Check out this opportunity at #UniSaarland where I did my PhD: https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/#phd-2023
Great team there at the #SaarlandInformaticsCampus and great sense of community as well. The PhDs are well-funded for 4 years and the postdoc is for an initial term of 3 years to pursue your own relevant research agenda.