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Dr. Georg Schneider @ ZF Friedrichshafen AG, AI Lab Saarbrücken – ZF AI Lab Saarbrücken: Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz bei ZF, Machine Learning – Entwickler geben Einblick aus ihren laufenden AI Projekten
2022-05-11 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Dr. Georg Schneider (ZF Friedrichshafen AG, AI Lab Saarbrücken)
ZF AI Lab Saarbrücken: Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz bei ZF, Machine Learning – Entwickler geben Einblick aus ihren laufenden AI Projekten
ZF ist ein weltweit aktiver Technologiekonzern und liefert Systeme für die Mobilität von Pkw, Nutzfahrzeugen und Industrietechnik. ZF lässt Fahrzeuge sehen, denken und handeln: In den vier Technologiefeldern Vehicle Motion Control, integrierte Sicherheit, automatisiertes Fahren und Elektromobilität bietet ZF umfassende Produkt- und Software-Lösungen für etablierte Fahrzeughersteller sowie für neu entstehende Anbieter von Transport- und Mobilitätsdienstleistungen.
Das ZF AI Lab Saarbrücken, als Teil des AI & Cyber Security Tech Centers wurde 2019 als ZF Corporate Funktion auf dem Campus der Universität des Saarlandes gegründet. Hier arbeitet ein hochmotiviertes AI Expertenteam an Themen wie „Automatisiertes Fahren & Fahrerassistenz (AD/ADAS)“ und „Industrie 4.0 (I4.0)“. Zusammen mit ehemaligen Absolventen der Saarbrücker Informatik wird Dr. Georg Schneider, Leiter des ZF AI Labs, anhand von Beispielen darüber berichten, wie Künstliche Intelligenz bei ZF eingesetzt wird.
Dr. Georg Schneider beendete 1999 sein Studium der Physik an der TU Darmstadt. Er verfügt über mehr als 20 Jahre Erfahrung im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz, Computer Vision und ADAS-Funktionsentwicklung in der Automobilindustrie, von der Forschung über die Vorentwicklung bis zur Serienentwicklung. Seine gegenwärtigen Themenschwerpunkte sind AD/ADAS und Industrie 4.0.

Moritz Hardt @ MPI for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen – The invisible hand of prediction
2022-05-19 12:00 - 13:00
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 of prediction“
https://explainable-intelligent.systems/lectures/

Andreas Dier @ adesso – Saarwars – The return of the computer scientist
2022-11-07 12:00 - 13:00
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 you further what roles there are in software development and what the software development process looks like.

Dr. Christoph Endres @sequire technology – From AI to Cybersecurity and back
2023-11-22 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Christoph Endres (sequire technology): „From AI to Cybersecurity and back“

Dr. Gabriel Ruffini @ INVAP - Software Ecosystems in the Life Cycle of a Satellite
2023-11-23 12:00 - 13:00
Dr. Gabriel Ruffini (INVAP): „Software Ecosystems in the Life Cycle of a Satellite“

Philipp Stopp @ abat+ – From algebraic number theory to achieving runner-up world champion status in Robocup SPL – an exiting journey
2023-12-06 16:15 - 17:00
Philipp Stopp (abat+): „From algebraic number theory to achieving runner-up world champion status in Robocup SPL – an exiting journey“

Dr. Pepijn Crouzen @ Google – Large Language Models and video classification as seen by a Youtube engineer
2023-12-13 00:00
Dr. Pepijn Crouzen (Google)

Dr. Tim Kehl & Dr. Nicolas Thewes @ ZF Friedrichshafen AGZF Friedrichshafen AG, AI Lab Saarbrücken – AI-powered Production Solutions @ ZF
2024-01-10 16:15 - 17:00 | HS002, Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 002, Saarbrücken, Saarland, 66123, Deutschland
Dr. Tim Kehl
Dr. Nicolas Thewes

Dr. Ralf Karrenberg @ NVIDIA – Compilers, Ray Tracing, and AI at NVIDIA
2024-01-12 12:15 - 13:15 | HS002, Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 002, Saarbrücken, Saarland, 66123, 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 thanks to a significant contribution from AI, and some foundational compiler technology. We’ll take a look at the role that NVIDIA’s ray tracing driver and its compiler infrastructure play in running today’s games. This will be accompanied by lessons learned and stories from a journey that led from Saarland University to contributing to Hollywood blockbusters in New Zealand to helping prototype and productize the first game-centric ray tracing API (“DirectX Raytracing”).

Dr. David Valcárcel Romeu @SES – Software Systems to operate SES‘ Multi-Orbit Satellite Fleet
2024-01-18 12:15 - 13:15 | HS001, Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 001, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland, 66123, Deutschland
Dr. David Valcárcel Romeu et al. (SES)

Dr. Daniel Kästner @ AbsInt - Preventing Death by Software
2024-05-15 16:15 - 17:15 | HS001, Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 001, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland, 66123, Deutschland
Daniel studied Computer Science and Business Economics at Saarland University and, in the year 2000, received his Ph.D. on code optimization for embedded processors. He is a co-founder of the company AbsInt, located here at the Science Park. AbsInt provides verification tools for safety- or security-critical embedded systems, in particular based on abstract interpretation and formal compiler verification. Over the years Daniel gained a lot of insight in the development of control software for cars, airplanes, nuclear power plants and medical devices, and the verification challenges for them. Obviously a malfunctioning of the software in such systems can be dangerous for people, but formal verification techniques are only slowly being adopted in industry. The talk will touch on safety-critical systems in industry, self-driving cars, the acceptable level of risk, and formal verification methods in practice.

Dr. Cedric Lichtenau @ IBM - From Mainframe to Quantum
2024-06-05 16:15 | HS001, Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 001, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland, 66123, 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 a PowerPC selfboot engine in vhdl and what learnings from his university time helped him most along the way! Cedric will also touch on IBM systems from the mainframe to quantum, the (agile) hardware development of high performance and high availability processors, as well as enterprise AI use cases and hardware acceleration.

Dr. Dirk Ziegenbein @ Robert-Bosch-GmbH - Building a Cyber-Physical Cloud Edge Continuum
2024-06-19 16:15 - 17:15 | HS001, Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 001, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland, 66123, 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 chief expert at Bosch Research in Renningen, Dirk leads a research cluster developing methods and technologies for dynamic distributed systems. The vision of the research cluster is to create a distributed compute continuum from embedded devices to data centers supporting real-time and safety-critical workloads. The talk will outline the technical challenges and solutions paving the way towards this vision.

Dr. Richard Hipp - How SQLite Works
2024-06-25 12:15 - 14:00 | Günter-Hotz-Hörsaal (E2 2)
Abstract:
If you measure success by the number of deployments, SQLite dominates the
database world. There are more instances of SQLite running today than all
other database engines combined. Why is this? How did SQLite come to be
so widely used? What makes SQLite different?This talk attempts to answer those questions by reviewing the unusual
design and implementation choices in SQLite, and showing how those
choices make SQLite well suited for mobile phones, appliances,
applications, and the „internet of things“ where SQLite is often found.
The talk will delve into SQLite’s use of bytecode, the techniques used
to achieve ACID power-safe transactions, and the query planning
algorithms.This talk is targeted toward listeners who are familiar with
other database implementations, but it also accessible to people with
only a general computer programming background and who just want to
know more about how an SQL database engine works behind the scenes.
Short Bio:
Richard Hipp is an entrepreneur based in Charlotte, NC, USA, and the founder
and lead developer for SQLite as well as several other open-source projects.
He has been an invited speaker at universities around the world, including
MIT, Harvard, CMU, NYU, IIT Kharagpur, Politechnika Gdańska, and others.
Richard never intended to become a „database guy“. His PhD dissertation
(Duke University, 1992) was in computational linguistics, and his
undergraduate studies were in electrical engineering and digital signal
processing. Because he did not come up inside the database community,
Richard brings a different perspective to database design, implementation,
and usage.
When he isn’t sitting at the keyboard writing code (his usual habitat),
Richard can often be found out on long-distance runs or cooking vegetarian
meals with his wife, Ginger.
Host:
Jens Dittrich

Christian Kaiser @ Archibus Solution Center Germany: Creating Smart Buildings - Real Estate Management for Global Enterprises
2024-07-03 16:15 | HS001, Building E1 3, Lecture Hall 001, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland, 66123, Deutschland
Only a few companies know the actual utilization of their office space. At the same time, 65 percent of employees want a hybrid and digital working environment.
Archibus meets both needs. Sensor technology in offices, IoT or digitalized portfolios to reduce emissions — Archibus offers the key to the buildings of the future with comprehensive software and digitalization consulting. Archibus software is the global market leader in digital real estate management. Our customers include global brands such as Beiersdorf, Festo, Bosch and Adidas.
