Paul Strohmeier has been bestowed with an ERC Grant to research and develop algorithms to vibrate actuators in such a way that they generate sensations of movement. Strohmeier's research focuses on Kinesthetic Displays, a new class of devices that enable us to experience and perceive movements, even those we do not physically perform.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the largest and most prestigious international scientific society in the field of computer science, has named Anja Feldmann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Professor at Saarland University, an "ACM Fellow". This honors her influential contributions to the data-driven analysis of operational networks. Worldwide, only 68 new ACM Fellows were named for 2023.
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has bestowed the title of an honorary doctor (doctor honoris causa) on Gerhard Weikum, in recognition of his contributions to the fields of databases, world wide web, and artificial intelligence.
Computer scientist Anja Feldmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, has been honored by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) with the Konrad Zuse Medal. The Zuse Medal is the highest award in computer science in Germany. She is being honored for her outstanding achievements in the field of computer networks and her research on Internet traffic during the corona pandemic. The award will be presented on September 28 at the GI's INFORMATIK FESTIVAL 2023 in Berlin.
The Max Planck Society awardes the Otto Hahn Medal to young researchers for outstanding scientific achievements, mostly in connection with their doctorate.
Danupon Nanongkai has been appointed Scientific Member by the Max Planck Society as of August 1, 2022. As a scientific director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, he will lead a department exploring fundamental issues at the frontier of algorithms and complexity theory.
Hans-Peter Seidel, Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and Honorary Professor at Saarland University, has been honored by the world's largest computer science association, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), for his seminal contributions to the research field of computer graphics.
The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest and most important organization of computer scientists, has elected three researchers from the two Max Planck Institutes in Saarbrücken to Fellow status, the most prominent level of membership. In doing so, the ACM honors their fundamental contributions to modern computer science, with whose insights our current technology has been shaped.
Chosen for his "proven achievements in the areas of distributed information systems, performance optimization of database systems, information extraction and knowledge processing."
