Moritz Hardt @ MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen – The invisible hand of prediction

Moritz Hardt (MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen) Moritz Hardt recently joined the MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen as Scientific Director after positions in Berkeley, Google, Princeton, CMU. Some years back, Moritz was a student of CS in Saarbrücken and he was a member of the honor’s programme. Moritz will talk about „The invisible hand […]

Andreas Dier @ adesso – Saarwars – The return of the computer scientist

Andreas Dier (Software Architekt / Teamleiter) (adesso) After a few years on a distant planet, Andreas Dier returns to his home planet, to find own Padawans as masters of the Java Academy "adesso". He came to you today to show you what trials he went through to go from padawan to master. He will show […]

Dr. Ralf Karrenberg @ NVIDIA – Compilers, Ray Tracing, and AI at NVIDIA

HS002 Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 002, Saarbrücken, Saarland, Deutschland

Dr. Ralf Karrenberg (NVIDIA, formerly a student at Saarland University) An old joke goes “ray tracing is the technology of the future and always will be”. A few years after the release of the first desktop-class GPU with dedicated ray tracing hardware the games industry has well and truly arrived in that future - also […]

Dr. Cedric Lichtenau @ IBM – From Mainframe to Quantum

HS001 Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 001, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland, Deutschland

Cedric studied Computer Science and Physics at Saarland University and, received his Ph.D. on parallel computing architecture in 2000. He is working at IBM Research and Development Lab near Stuttgart currently as the chief architect for AI acceleration on IBM enterprise servers. He will be talking about his journey that started with the development of […]

Dr. Dirk Ziegenbein @ Robert-Bosch-GmbH – Building a Cyber-Physical Cloud Edge Continuum

HS001 Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 001, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland, Deutschland

Dirk studied electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech and TU Braunschweig and in 2002 received a Ph.D. on modeling and design of embedded systems. He held several positions in R&D (software component technology, scheduling analysis, software architectures for multi-cores, autonomous systems design) and product management (embedded software engineering tools). In his current role as […]