1000 researchers, 2800 students, 5 renowned institutes & 24 academic programs - computer science at Saarland University. 🖥️
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📹Can 3D scenes be encoded into and rendered from a set of compressed tokens? New work "SceneTok" from the Geometric Representation Learning group at MPI for Informatics shows that they can, and that this approach pairs naturally with generative rendering to handle uncertainty in observations.
↪️More information on the project page: https://mpi-inf.link/scenetok
Accepted at CVPR2026
💶 Saarland University physicist Prof. Dr. Peter P. Orth and computer scientist Prof. Dr. Markus Bläser collaborate on QIAPO — funded with €2.3M by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space.
🚗 Working with industry partners BMW, Infineon and the quantum computing start-up planqc, their aim is to combine quantum and classical computing to solve optimization problems more efficiently.
Read more: https://sic.link/quantum
Considering a Master’s in Computer Science, Visual Computing, or Embedded Systems in Germany? Get clarity — and ask your questions live.
🎓 Talk directly with university representatives and compare programs.
Featuring Saarland University & DFKI:
Studying Computer Science in Germany
📅 26 March 2026
→ M.Sc. CS + M.Sc. Visual Computing
Register: https://sic.link/csmaster
Studying Electrical Engineering in Germany
📅 23 April 2026
→ M.Sc. Embedded Systems
Register: https://sic.link/esmaster
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Pre-order for €20 until April 17, 2026. Pickup starts May 25, 2026.
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Not sure about your size? Try it on at the CS Students’ Council office.
🔗 Info + order: https://sic.link/shirts
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🚀 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
🇫🇷✨ Success in Paris! The Future Pioneers Hackathon brought talent together to shape the future of AI in finance.
We are thrilled to share that Saarland Informatics Campus students were part of EVERY winning team!
🥇 Most Disruptive: Team Agent Alpha (Izzettin Algan, Denis Pushchai)
🎤 Best Pitch: Team Altitude (Abhiroop Basak, Artem Ivanov)
🌱 Future Pioneer: Team Pulse (Yiting Yun)
Innovation "Made in Saarland"! 🚀
I am happy to report that I have been named the recipient of the
2026 Harlan D. Mills award
"for sustained contributions to software debugging, program analysis, mining software repositories, and automated test generation."
Let me thank my nominator Tom Zimmermann, my endorsers Lionel Briand, Mira Mezini, Gail Murphy, Matt Dwyer, Ahmed E. Hassan, the selection committee led by Massimiliano Di Penta, and of course all of you supporters over the years. See you soon!
https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/mills
🏆 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
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MPI für Informatik
Andreas Zeller