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Official account of the MPI for Informatics in Saarbrücken. Our goal is to advance foundational research and drive innovation in key areas of computer science.

Imprint: https://imprint.mpi-klsb.mpg.de/inf/www.mpi-inf.mpg.de?lang=de
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Congrats to Hannaneh Akrami for being selected for the @maxplanck.de Minerva Fast Track Programme! 🎉
Her work in algorithmic game theory explores fairness in allocation problems – how to distribute indivisible goods so everyone perceives the result as fair. 🎓

↪️ sic.link/fasttrack
Hannaneh Akrami selected for Minerva Fast Track Programme
Research focuses on fairness in allocation problems.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Two new Emmy Noether research groups established at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, led by Dr. @janericlenssen.bsky.social and Dr. Karol Węgrzycki.
Together, they will receive around 3.7 million euros in funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).🎓

More info ↪️ sic.link/emmynoether
Research Funding in the Millions: Two New Emmy Noether Groups Established at the MPI for Informatics
Research focuses on algorithms and machine learning
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October 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Director Christian Theobalt joins the new season of the Max Planck podcast “Ach, Mensch!” and talks about his research in Visual Computing and Artificial Intelligence.

↪️Link to the episode: sic.link/achmensch

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Christian Theobalt during the podcast recording.
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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International research team from MPI for Informatics and TU Delft has detected more than 16,000 compromised servers using a subtle feature of the SSH authentication protocol. Published at USENIX Security Symposium 2025, won Distinguished Paper Award + Internet Defense Prize. ↪️ sic.link/catch22
European Research Team Awarded for Detecting More Than 16,000 Compromised Servers
The new method leverages a subtle feature in the Secure Shell authentication protocol.
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September 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Kurt Mehlhorn, Founding Director of MPI for Informatics, was awarded the Saarland Order of Merit yesterday by Minister President Anke Rehlinger. The award recognizes his life’s work, from advancing algorithmic research to mentoring researchers and helping build key institutions. More: sic.link/merit
Kurt Mehlhorn awarded the Saarland Order of Merit
Minister President Rehlinger presented the order during a ceremonial event at the Saarland State Chancellery.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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System admins don’t just fix servers—they coordinate with users, support colleagues in high-stress situations, and much more. 🖥️🤝 Mannat Kaur from MPI-INF shows how these elements of social negotiation and care-work are an important part of IT security. ↪️ sic.link/sysadminday

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Why System Administration Is More Than Just Technology
Research shows: Social negotiation and care work are central components
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July 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Congrats to Tomasz Kociumaka for winning the 2025 EATCS Presburger Award! 🎉🏅The prize committee recognized his work for resolving long-standing open problems and developing near-linear time algorithms for fundamental string processing tasks.

↪️ More Info: sic.link/presburger25
EATCS Presburger Award for Tomasz Kociumaka
The computer scientist receives the award for groundbreaking contributions to string algorithms and data structures
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July 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Congrats to @annakukleva.bsky.social, for winning the Otto Hahn Medal of @maxplanck.de! 🏅In her PhD thesis she shows how AI can learn to recognize images & videos with less manual labeling, using self-supervised and weakly supervised methods.
↪️ sic.link/ottohahn25

#AI #ComputerVision #research
Otto Hahn Medal for Anna Kukleva
The award is given for fundamental work on learning powerful representations for image and video recognition from reduced supervision.
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July 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🎓 Interested in a research-oriented, fully funded PhD position in computer science, supervised by world-renowned researchers? Then apply for IMPRS-TRUST, the joint #graduateprogram of MPI-INF, MPI-SWS, @uni-saarland.de and @rptu.bsky.social

🗓️Application deadline: June 30th
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A Flyer for the International Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy Computing that mentions the application deadline on June 30th.
June 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Thread: Main Conference Papers from Our Lab at CVPR 2025! 🚀

👏 Big congrats to everyone! Keep an eye out at #CVPR2025 🌟

#MPI-INF #D2 #ComputerVision #AI #PhD #ML

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June 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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The CVML group at the @mpi-inf.mpg.de has been busy for CVPR. Check out our papers and come by the presentations!
cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de Computer Vision and Machine Learning at MPI Informatics @cvml.mpi-inf.mpg.de · Jun 11
🎉 Exciting News #CVPR2025!

We’re proud to announce that we have 5 papers accepted to the main conference and 7 papers accepted at various CVPR workshops this year!

We’re looking forward to sharing our research with the community in Nashville!

Stay tuned for more details! ‪‪@mpi-inf.mpg.de‬
June 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Interested in recent advances in graph decomposition techniques and their use in designing efficient algorithms? Then save the date for ADFOCS 2025. More information on registration and available grants: ↪️https://sic.link/adfocs25

See you in Saarbrücken! 🎓

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This is an event flyer for the Advanced Course on the Foundations of Computer Science. It contains pictures of the speakers and information on the event.
June 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Congratulations to Mojtaba Bemana for receiving one of the Eurographics 2025 Dissertation Awards! His thesis was about Image-Based Rendering, an emerging subfield of Computer Graphics. 🎉 More about his work and a link to the thesis: sic.link/egaward
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From Photos to 3D Model: Saarbrücken Computer Scientist Receives International Recognition for PhD-Thesis
Mojtaba Bemana receives Eurographics dissertation award.
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June 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Making AI more transparent is central to building systems we can trust. Jonas Fischer’s Explainable Machine Learning Group at MPI-INF works on methods to achieve precisely that. Example: a NeurIPS paper on how domain knowledge can guide model pruning for better understanding. sic.link/dash
Reshaping Neural Networks for Their Improvement
A new method makes neural networks more streamlined, more efficient, and easier to understand—impacting research across disciplines.
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June 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Curious about our research or what it’s like to work and collaborate at our institute?🤔 In this short film, some of our researchers share what drives their work and what makes MPI for Informatics a unique place for computer science. 📹 Watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/MbZ49mx6tf0
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May 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Welcome to the Bluesky channel of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Here, we will soon share updates on research, people, and events at our Institute. Don’t miss the release of our introductory video this Friday! 🦋

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A text block with the words "Launching Soon" and a cartoon-style rocket that is launching into space.
May 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM