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Fourth Busy Beaver Award for "Concurrent Programming"

The best base lecture in summer 2023 is our lecture Concurrent Proramming. It is the fourth time the lecture gets awarded the Busy Beaver award for outstanding teaching performance.

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Andreas Schmidt receives Busy Beaver Award for "Hands-On Dependability"

The winter 2022/23 edition of our lecture Hands on Dependability receives the Busy Beaver award for outstanding teaching performance.

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Convecs Team receives Inria Innovation Prize

Congratulations to Hubert Garavel and the Convecs Team for being awarded the Inria Innovation Prize – Académie des sciences – Dassault Systèmes! A great recognition for their long-term development of the CADP toolbox.

ERC Proof of Concept Grant LEOpowver

Prof. Holger Hermanns has been awarded the ERC Proof of Concept Grant LEOpowver for exploitation and commercialisation of POWVER results in low-earth orbit.

Explainable Intelligent Systems Grant

The Volkswagenstiftung has announced to fully fund our interdisciplinary project initiative “Explainable Intelligent Systems” – EIS.

Depend Hackers Help Staying Social in Viral Times

A team of Dependables has participated in the #WirVsVirus Hackathon. You can find details about their project Quokka here.

Hochschulperle des Jahres!

Our lecture Ethics for Nerds is Hochschulperle des Jahres. A big THANK YOU to all who supported us in the elections.

Busy Beaver Award goes to d once again

The 2019 edition of our lecture Nebenläufige Programmierung received the Busy Beaver award for outstanding teaching performance.

Best Paper Award for Doping Tests for Cyber-Physical Systems

Our work on doping tests for cyber-physical systems wins the best paper award at QEST 2019.

Perle wir sind

Our module “Ethics for Nerds” has been declared Hochschulperle Januar 2019 by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft.

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Perspicuous Computing in focus of new CRC

The DFG establishes a new Transregional Collaborative Research Centre on Perspicuous Computing, CRC 248, joining Saarbrücken and Dresden.

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SENSATION in Acta Astronautica

The major scientific journal for spacewomen and spacemen publishes our earth-orbiting work rooted in the European Project SENSATION.

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Award: “Ausgezeichneter Ort im Land der Ideen”

We are “Ausgezeichneter Ort im Land der Ideen” 2018.

Best Paper Award for Markov Automata on Discount

Our discounted work on Markov automata wins the best paper award at MMB 2018.

Best Paper Award for Alternating Bisimulation

Our work on alternating bisimulation for interval Markov decision processes wins the best paper award at SETTA 2017.

Busy Beaver Award goes to d again

The 2017 edition of our lecture Nebenläufige Programmierung receives the award for outstanding teaching performance Busy Beaver.

Draisine 200.0 goes public

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Karl Drais’ Laufmaschine we have developed an electrified version thereof, the Draisine 200.0. Electrifying!

Best Paper Award for Battery-Aware Scheduling

Our work on battery-aware scheduling for nano satellites wins the best paper award at FM 2016.

ERC Advanced Grant POWVER

Prof. Holger Hermanns has been awarded the ERC Advanced Grant POWVER. A huge investment in the right kind of science. Read more about Power to the people. Verified.