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: sic.link/interview

🧠 How does the brain respond to confusing code? @uni-saarland.de computer scientists Sven Apel and Vera Demberg worked with psychologist Axel Mecklinger to see. Surprisingly, the brain activities were similar to that of people reading sentences with plot twists. 🔗 Read more: sic.link/softwareeeg

Shape the future of quantum computing. The new Master program "Quantum Information Theory" at #SaarlandInformaticsCampus combines mathematics, physics and computer science with a focus on quantum computing. No prior background in quantum physics is required. Apply by August 31, 2026: sic.link/qit

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

Max Planck Institute for Informatics@mpi-inf.mpg.de · 3mo ago

What foundational theoretical knowledge should a machine learning researcher have? 🎓🤔 That’s the central question behind this year’s ADFOCS 2026 at the MPI for Informatics. If you’d like to explore machine learning through a theoretical lens, this summer school is for you. ↪️ mpi-inf.link/ADFOCS26

🧬🖥️ 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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Saarland Informatics Campus@saarland-informatics-campus.de · 5mo ago

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

⚛️ 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

Out into the countryside: MPI for Informatics takes part in “Heimspiel Wissenschaft”

Talking about research in places where science is otherwise rarely present—that is the idea behind the event series “Heimspiel Wissenschaft.”

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