At the 19th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), the BALL team of Saarland University received the "Art and Science Award" for their artwork "Reflections on Protein Structures".
The Society for the Advancement of Technology Transfer (GFFT) and its trustee Dr. Jürgen Weber, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Lufthansa, honored two computer scientists from Saarland today, both are pioneers in the field and each has had a professional career filled with outstanding contributions promoting the transfer of their research findings to commercial products and services: Professors Scheer and Wahlster. In the context of the 5th Annual Meeting on March 18, 2011 in Dietzenbach, the society presented an honorary membership to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster, scientific director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Prof. Wahlster is the second computer scientist to ever receive this distinction which he shares with Andreas von Bechtolsheim the founder of Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley. Also presented with an honorary membership was the BITKOM President, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. August-Wilhelm Scheer. The highly respected selection committee consists of three internationally acknowledged computer science professors: Wolfgang Bibel (Chair), José Luis Encarnação, and Hartmut Raffler.
Intel, the world market leader for semiconductors, is now a shareholder of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). In December 2009, Intel joined the circle of industrial partners, comprising among others Daimler, BMW, SAP, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post, Microsoft, Bertelsmann, IDS Scheer, Harting, Deutsche Messe, Ricoh and EADS Astrium.
