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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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

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

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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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

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

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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
↪️ sic.link/imprs

Thread: Main Conference Papers from Our Lab at CVPR 2025! 🚀

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

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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!

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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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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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

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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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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