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Das Institut für Informatik trauert um unseren geschätzten Kollegen Professor Phuoc Tran-Gia, der völlig unerwartet am 17. Mai 2023 im Alter von 70 Jahren verstorben ist.

Computer scientist Nikolas Herbst submitted a paper to a conference in 2012 that had a major impact in the years that followed. He has now received an award for it.

On March 3, 2023, IBM and the Chair of Software Engineering of the University of Würzburg celebrated the kick-off of their one-and-a-half-year research project on the topic of energy efficiency.

This year, the Institute of Computer Science once again hosted a successful Girls' Day.

Students at the University of Würzburg are developing a technology that will one day replace parachutes for landing bodies from space. Two prototypes were recently tested in practice as part of the REXUS/BEXUS program.

The open colloquium offers the opportunity to give or hear lectures on topics that are not covered in the normal course of study. In the summer semester the lectures take place on Wednesdays at 18:00.

The 25,000-euro university sponsorship award from the Main-Franconian business community goes to computer scientist Dr. Stefan Geißler. The money will go toward a project that aims to simplify wireless technologies.

In the summer semester of 2023, the Computer Science Colloquium will once again feature interesting lectures. In addition to two external speakers, five newly appointed professors will present their research areas.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Jung as University Professor for Computer Engineering at the Chair of Computer Science XVII.

The new computer science professor Carlo D'Eramo works in the field of artificial intelligence. He is an expert in a special form of machine learning called reinforcement learning.

The study of unknown phenomena in the air is finding its way into teaching: space engineer Professor Hakan Kayal has designed a lecture specifically for this purpose.

On February 13/14, 2023, the kick-off workshop of the DFG Emmy-Noether junior research group "UserNet" took place, where research group leader Dr. Michael Seufert invited the associated partners to Würzburg to set the starting signal for the research activities.



The students Simon Hentschel (Computer Science) and Stanislaus Kruschinski (English Studies) have received awards for their final theses. Both worked on artificial intelligence.

On 23 and 24 February CAIDAS visited the AI.BAY 2023, the Bavarian International Conference on AI in Munich. We presented two projects at a joint booth with CAIRO from TWHS, and spokesperson Andreas Hotho gave an invited talk.