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MA­LEO at GECCO 2025 - Best Pa­per Award and More!

The MALEO (Machine Learning and Optimisation) group had a fantastic time at GECCO 2025 in Malaga, where we were honoured to receive the Best Paper Award for: "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Instance-Specific Algorithm Configuration" (in collaboration with Elias Schede and Kevin Tierney, Bielefeld University). We also presented: RandOptGen: A Unified Random Problem Generator for Single- and Multi-Objective Optimisation Problems with…

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Photo: Nadija Carter, winner of the Faculty 2025 award

On Friday, 4 July 2025, more than 200 graduates of the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics (EIM) were given a ceremonial send-off in lecture hall L1 at Paderborn University.

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(Photo: Paderborn University, Nadija Carter) Prof. Dr. Jérôme Euzenat

Professor Jérôme Euzenat visits Paderborn University and the Heinz Nixdorf Institute to talk about “Cultural knowledge evolution in artificial agent societies”

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142,656 processor cores, 108 GPUs, AMD processors of the latest "Turin" generation and an IBM Spectrum Scale file system with five petabytes of storage capacity: these are the outstanding inner values of "Otus", the new supercomputer at Paderborn University.

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With the new "VRLabTutor" project, Paderborn University is adding an AI-based assistance function to its successful virtual reality chemistry laboratory "VirtuChemLab" on 1 April 2025.

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Paderborn University researchers develop freely accessible tool and receive award for study.

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Neurotechnology is no longer limited to the medical field, but is increasingly being used in areas such as entertainment, wellness and marketing. But what data protection concerns arise from the use of brain data?

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What does the path after graduation actually look like? Thim Strothmann, a graduate of Paderborn University, studied computer science, then did his doctorate and now works as Project & Competence Centre Manager at Adesso Mobile Solutions in Paderborn.

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Solu­tions for ef­fi­cient and sus­tain­able product de­vel­op­ment

With the help of digital technologies, universities and companies from Ostwestfalen-Lippe want to create a new approach to developing sustainable products under the leadership of the Advanced Systems Engineering (ASE) group from the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University.

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Exciting lectures, interactive workshops and excursions: Paderborn University invites pupils to familiarise themselves with various study and career opportunities with a range of offers.

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On Tuesday, 18 March, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum will host a practical day on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in schools, organised by Paderborn University and the Detmold district government.

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In­aug­ur­al lec­ture by Prof Dr Lin Wang

On Tuesday, 21 January 2025, the newly appointed Professor of Computer Science Dr. Lin Wang gave his inaugural lectures in Lecture Hall O2 together with Prof. Dr. Erdal Kayacan from Electrical Engineering.

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Pader­born Uni­ver­sity suc­cess­ful in "THE World Uni­ver­sity Sub­ject Rank­ing 2025"

In the categories of computer science, engineering, economics, education and natural sciences, as well as in the humanities and cultural studies, the university has above-average international rankings

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"All Day Re­search" Pod­cast: 44th epis­ode with Prof Dr Eric Bod­den

In the 44th episode of the "All Day Research" podcast, Dr Harald Selke from the Computer Science Office talks to Prof Dr Eric Bodden about the ERC grant, the funding landscape and his research plans.

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In­aug­ur­al lec­ture by Prof Dr Anni-Yas­min Turhan and Prof Dr Lena Wessel

On Monday, 13 January 2025, Prof. Dr. Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Knowledge Representation) and Prof. Dr. Lena Wessel (Didactics of Mathematics) gave their inaugural lectures in lecture hall O2.

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