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Katharina von der Wense commences her professorship
We warmly welcome Prof. KATHARINA VON DER WENSE to the institute. She commenced her endowed professorship at Johannes Gutenberg University on July 1, 2023 and heads the new JGU working group for natural language processing.
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Sarah Neuwirth commences her professorship
We warmly welcome professor SARAH NEUWIRTH, who has held the professorship for National High Performance Computing and its Applications at Johannes Gutenberg University since October 1, 2023. She will support teaching in the field of high-performance computing at the Institute of Computer Science.
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Professor Perl passed away
The Institute of Computer Science mourns the loss of Dr. Jürgen Perl, who served as a professor of Applied Computer Science at JGU from 1984 until his retirement in 2010. He passed away on August 23, 2023.
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Most Influential Paper Award for professor Erdweg
Professor Sebastian Erdweg of the Programming Languages research group received the Most Influential Paper Award for his 2011 OOPSLA paper. The award is presented by ACM SIGPLAN to the authors of the paper that had the most impact in the previous 10 years.
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Ig Nobel Prize for Analysis of Air in the Cinema
Professor Stefan Kramer and Alumni of his workgroup received, together with a research group of the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, the famous satirical Ig Nobel Prize for their research on how to draw conclusions about the content of movies by analyzing the air in the cinema.
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Prospective Students

7 reasons for studying Computer Science in Mainz
Individual support, various fields of study, support by experienced students, well equipped computer rooms, education with practical relevance, nice town and great campus, good future prospects.
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