Good news: Registrations for #ADFOCS2026 are still open! Register until July 26. 🔗 More info and registration: sic.link/adfocs

🧬🖥️ Call for Posters! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadline Poster: 6 Aug 2026 👉 gcb2026.de

📣🚨 Reminder: Applications for the English Computer Science and Cybersecurity B.Sc. programs close on July 15! Already applied? Take a look at our Honors Program, where you'll find an environment to thrive. *The Honors Program is an addition to your B.Sc. courses. 🔗More information: sic.link/udshp

This week, the Saarland Minister of Finance and Science, Jakob von Weizsäcker, attended the Future Minds Café to kick off the DAAD Future Minds Programme in Quantum Technologies & Artificial Intelligence! With this program, we aim to help global talents thrive in Germany. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/daad

Congrats to Danupon Nanongkai, Scientific Director at @mpi-inf.mpg.de, for receiving the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing! 👏 He was part of the team that wrote the winning paper, "Distributed Verification and Hardness of Distributed Approximation." 🔗 Read more: sic.link/danupon

Whether you're writing your first paper, preparing a publication, or exploring a new research topic, infomath.discovery helps you find literature faster. Search books, e-books, journals, arXiv, JSTOR & more. Less searching. More discovering. 🔎 infomath-bib.disco.mpg.de #SIC #Research

Congrats to Martina Maggio and Rupak Majumdar, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, for receiving ERC Advanced Grants - bringing the total number of #ERC Grants at #SIC to 51! 🔗 Read more: sic.link/ercadvanced #computerscience #SaarlandUniversity #ERCAdvancedGrant

Congratulations to Dr.-Ing. Martin Feick on receiving the prestigious 2026 ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award. His research explores how hand-based illusions, proxy technology and personalisation can make virtual reality feel more natural and accessible. Congrats, Dr. Feick!👏 @uni-saarland.de

@uni-saarland.de 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: sic.link/aiparkinson

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!

Congratulations to Daniel Höller for receiving a €1.8 Million Emmy Noether grant from @dfg.de for his research project, '#NeuroSymbolic Methods in Sequential Decision Making'!👏 His group will use neural and symbolic methods to improve #machinelearning reliability. 🔗Read more: sic.link/neurosymbolic

New partnership: @mpi-inf.mpg.de and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems joined the new Max Planck School for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence!👏 The Saarbrücken fellows are: ➡️Bernt Schiele (MPI-INF) ➡️Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS) ➡️Christian Theobalt (MPI-INF) 🔗 Read more: sic.link/bioai

Congrats to @uni-saarland.de Professor and MPI-SWS Scientific Director Joël Ouaknine for being named a Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)!🏆 In his research, he sheds light on how complex systems behave using mathematical methods. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/eatcs

Saarland Informatics Campus is at #CHI2026 this week, as the second largest contributor among in German universities! With 22 contributions from 24 researchers, out researchers brought the following awards home: 🏆x2 Best Paper 🏆X1 SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation 🔗 Read more: sic.link/chi2026

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⚛️ This week, @uni-saarland.de launches Center for Quantum Technologies (QuTe)! In collaboration with @fz-juelich.de, QuTe aims to combine basic research & real world applications with a focus on: quantum engineering, quantum optics and quantum computing.   🔗 Read more: sic.link/qutech

The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources(SOUNDS) initiative is hiring a Postdoc for Computational Social Science. Apply by 24.04.2026 Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up... SOUNDS: www.sounds-observatory.org @ingmarweber.de @politicsunisaar.bsky.social @saarland-informatics-campus.de

@uni-saarland.de 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. Aim? Better optimization via quantum–classical computing. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/quantum

📹Can 3D scenes be encoded into and rendered from a set of compressed tokens? New work "SceneTok" from the Geometric Representation Learning group shows that they can, and that this approach pairs naturally with generative rendering to handle uncertainty in observations. ↪️More: mpi-inf.link/scenetok

CS Master's in Germany? Ask your questions live to faculty members! Studying Computer Science in Germany 📅 26 March 2026 → M.Sc. CS + M.Sc. Visual Computing Register: sic.link/csmaster Studying Electrical Engineering in Germany 📅 23 April 2026 → M.Sc. Embedded Systems Register: sic.link/esmaster

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! 🔗 Info + order: sic.link/shirts

🚀 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: sic.link/spaceflight

Celebrating the class of 2025 at the #SIC! 🎓 Huge congrats to all our graduates and the winners of the FdSI Bachelor-Preis & Günter-Hotz-Medaille. 👏 📸 See the photo highlights below, and catch the full group video here: sic.link/19 🎞️ @uni-saarland.de @mpi-inf.mpg.de @dfki.bsky.social #graduation

🏆 Congrats to @cispa.de researcher and @uni-saarland.de Professor @andreaszeller.bsky.social 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: sic.link/zeller #computerscience

🇫🇷✨ Huge success at the Future Pioneers Hackathon in Paris! #SIC students were part of every single winning team. 🥇 Disruptive Idea: Izzettin Algan & Denis Pushchai 🎤 Best Pitch: Abhiroop Basak & Artem Ivanov 🌱 Future Pioneer: Yiting Yun @uni-saarland.de @mpi-inf.mpg.de @dfki.bsky.social @cispa.de

Next up in our series "Research at MPI for Informatics": The Computer Vision and Machine Learning department. Director Bernt Schiele talks about the department’s work on explainable AI, foundation models, and how this connects to a range of real-world applications. 🎓 www.youtube.com/shorts/KUwuL...

Science where it’s rarely present: “Heimspiel Wissenschaft” brings researchers back to their rural homes to talk about their work. @oduenkel.bsky.social spoke in Boxberg-Schwabhausen on generative AI. 86 attendees in a village of ~600 people, plus a lively Q&A.🎓 ↪️https://sic.link/heimspiel

🏆 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: sic.link/apel

📚 Curious about research at Max Planck Institute for Informatics? Good news — you can now check out their new series, where they put every department under spotlight! 🎥

Congrats to @cispa.de researcher and Saarland University professor @andreaszeller.bsky.social 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: sic.link/ieee

Congrats to Prof. Dr. @ingmarweber.de 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: sic.link/weber

Time to close the books! 📚✨ Campus Library Holiday Hours: 🔒 Closed: Dec 24 – Jan 4 🔓 Reopen: Jan 5 Happy holidays & see you in 2026! ❄️ @uni-saarland.de @dfki.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #CampusLibrary #SIC #UniSaarland #UdS #WinterBreak #StudyBreak #HappyHolidays

💬 Ever wonder how Alexa or Siri understands you? Prof. Alexander Koller has the answers! We’re thrilled to announce he’s been elected an ACL Fellow—the only 2025 Fellow from the EU! 🏆 Huge congrats to Prof. Koller for his contributions to NLP. 👏 @uni-saarland.de @mpi-inf.mpg.de @dfki.bsky.social

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: sic.link/lalalab 📄 Application requirements: sic.link/fellowship

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: sic.link/keller

Missed the #TEDxSaarbridge talks by our Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing? Good news, you can find their recordings now! 👀 🎥 #societalcomputing #sciencecommunications

🔥 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: sic.link/torchlight

#SIC is hosting an X-Mas giveaway! Send us a pic or tag us:
 – you,
 – you + your bestie, or
– your favourite study gadget (for everyone who’s camera-shy 😉). 🏆 First 3 entries: an official SIC mug ☕️.
 ✨ The most creative pic? SIC Christmas ornaments for your own tree at home. Join the fun! 🎁

🗣️ Language connects people — #NLP lets computers join the conversation. At SIC, we explore it from all angles: 💬 Spoken Language, Prof. Klakow 🧩 Cognition & Psycholing, Prof. Demberg 🧠 Computational Linguistics, Prof. Koller 💭 LaCoCo Lab, Prof. Hahn 🔗 sic.link/17 @dfki.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de

🏆 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: sic.link/profwilhelmacm

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: sic.link/slusallek

🤖 Using AI while coding? Think again. 🖥️ A study conducted by Prof. Dr @svenapel.bsky.social 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: sic.link/software

📚 Writing your thesis? Print it at the CS Students Printer (E1.3, room 013) and bind it in the Campus Library. Get inspired by past theses — and leave yours for future students. 👉 Learn more: sic.link/15
 @uni-saarland.de @dfki.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de #campuslibrary #saarlanduniversity

🏆 Congrats to Yonggang Jiang, PhD candidate at the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science (Saarland University) and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, on being named a 2025 Google PhD Fellow! 🔗 More: sic.link/14 @uni-saarland.de @mpi-inf.mpg.de @dfki.bsky.social

🎉Three #SIC scientists join the Emmy Noether Programme (DFG), launching three new Junior Research Groups in Al, optimization & ML — strengthening #Saarbrücken's CS leadership as one of Germany's leading computer science centers! Congrats Drs. Lenssen, Wegrzycki & Hahn!👏 Read more: sic.link/emmy

📰 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: sic.link/journalismuspreis

📰 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: sic.link/silentscientist 📺 Watch: youtu.be/85Q3gTx_MUs

🏅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: sic.link/wahlster #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #SaarlandInformaticsCampus

This week, we started the Winter Semester with our #SemesterKickOff, where the Computer Science Students' Council presented the #BusyBeaver awards! 🏃 The Busy Beavers go to instructors whose courses get outstanding student evaluations in base, core/advanced lectures, or seminars. See the winners ⬇️

⌨️ 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 🐞💻 @uni-saarland.de @cispa.de @dfki.bsky.social @mpi-inf.mpg.de #debugging #softwaretesting