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📰 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

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster holding his award certificate. Next to him stands a woman holding out his medal.

⌨️ 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 🐞💻

@mpiinf @DFKI

#saarlandinformaticscampus #debugging #softwaretesting #bug #programming

Blue SIC graphic defining “Debugging” as the process of finding and fixing errors in a program’s code to ensure smooth, intended operation.

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

Poster for the "Zukunft durch Wandel" (Future through Change) event celebrating the Day of German Unity in Saarbrücken, October 2–4, 2025. Below, large white text reads: "Visit our booth – join our program! Mainzerstraße 3, Saarbrücken City." The background image shows three smiling people sitting outdoors, talking, and using a laptop.

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

@mpiinf @DFKI

#studyingermany #saarlandinformaticscampus #universitylife #studentlife #internationalstudents
#backtocampus

Graphic announcing SIC welcome events from the first-semester students, October 6–13, with details on venues and dates provided.

🏅 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 #CISPA #MPISWS

On the left, Dr. Mariya Toneva, on the right, Dr. Franziska Boenisch; on top of a banner that says "Saarbrücken computer scientists win 2 ERC Starting Grants!"

🏃‍➡️ 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

Photographs from the Highlights 2025 conference at Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland University. First photo; five presenters at the conference. Middle left, three guests conversing enthusiastically during a coffee break. Middle right, the audience during a talk. Bottom left, the registration table, Bottom middle, four guests conversing during a coffee break. Bottom right, a sticker in front of Saarland Informatics Campus merch, with the words "Highlights Saarbrücken 2025" on it.

🏅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

Newly awarded bearer of the Saarland Order of Merit, Kurt Mehlhorn (middle) with his wife Ena Mehlhorn (left) and Saarland Minister President Anke Rehlinger (right). Photo by: State Chancellery of Saarland

📥 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

Professor Josef van Genabith, Scientific Director at DFKI, and his deputy, Dr. Simon Ostermann, over a banner that says: "When AI goes wrong: how Gmail's AI got lost in translation.

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

@dfg_public

#TrustworthyAI #AICertification #EUAI #SaarlandUniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus

🎓 How time flies - it's been two months since Prof. Holger Hermanns became Scientific Director at Schloss Dagstuhl!

Thanks to Prof. Seidel for shaping the center for 11 impactful years, and congrats to Prof. Hermanns for leading a new chapter with his expertise.

#schlossdagstuhl #LeibnizZentrumfurInformatik #saarlanduniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #SIC #UdS #computerscience #informatics

Professor Holger Hermanns, Photo: Anja Daleman

🎓 The #ReasonableAI project at TU Darmstadt has earned a #ClusterofExcellence — with Saarland #ML prof Isabel Valera on the team!

👩‍🏫 At #SIC, we believe in collaboration — this time with TU Darmstadt. We're proud to see Prof. Valera in RAI, tackling key #AI challenges.

👏 Congrats to the RAI team and Prof. Valera — we can’t wait to see RAI’s impact on trustworthy AI!

🔗 Read more: sic.link/reasonableai

#saarlanduniversity #SaarlandInformaticsCampus #MachineLearning #TrustworthyAI #WomenInSTEM

A photo of Professor Isabel Valera. The banner below the photo says, "Isabel Valera involved in the Cluster of Excellence 'Reasonable Artificial Intelligence' at TU Darmstadt."

🏅 Congratulations to PhD student Lisa Marie Rolli for receiving the Günter Hotz Medal this year for her master’s thesis, “Increasing Trust in Machine Learning-based Drug Sensitivity Prediction”!

We’re happy and proud to support women in STEM like Lisa Marie, who push the boundaries of innovation one idea at a time. 👏👩‍🔬

Curious about how Lisa Marie navigated her research journey from Bachelor’s to PhD? Read more here: sic.link/lisamarierolli

#WomenInSTEM #SaarlandInformaticsCampus

Lisa Marie Rolli, Hotz Medalist and Bioinformatics PhD student, posing next to a staircase.

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.

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