July 14, 2025

Digital Wisdom at the Push of a Button

Wednesday, June 25, 2025 | 5:00 PM | Bibliotheksaula | Hofstallgasse 2-4 | Salzburg

Initiated by Univ.-Prof. Wolfgang Pree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg, the Bruder David AI Bot was developed in collaboration with the world-renowned Benedictine monk and spiritual teacher David Steindl-Rast.

Brother David is well known for his interfaith dialogues and international networks of gratitude. With this new AI-based dialogue app, his knowledge and wisdom become accessible in a new way. The event offers insights into the intersection of spirituality and technology, inviting participants to engage with timeless wisdom in a contemporary form.

March 25, 2025

Public Lecture Series

How does smart toys’ surveillance affect our children? Does the digital euro turn us into transparent citizens? Can our privacy still be saved? Digital data traces concern us all. The public lecture series “Privacy in the Digital World” at the University of Salzburg presents current research on privacy and data protection in the digital realm.

What do professors of philosophy, computer science, constitutional and administrative law, and the data protection officer of the University of Salzburg have in common? They are the organizers of this public lecture series, which addresses the topic of privacy from an interdisciplinary and cross-faculty perspective. The question of individual privacy in our increasingly digital everyday lives-whether in studies, work, or private life-affects us all. There are two extreme viewpoints: some see privacy as being threatened by new technologies, while others view bureaucratic barriers as obstacles to innovation.

January 8, 2025

i-Day 2025 - Information Day for Students

Open house at the Departments of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI) at the University of Salzburg: projects, presentations, and up-to-date information about studying and research.

We invite students to explore the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science degree programs and offer everyone interested the opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at the departments. We will showcase projects from our research groups and aim to spark interest in computer science through interactive workshops and presentations.

December 11, 2024

Four papers accepted to SODA (Symposium on Discrete Algorithms)

Four research papers from the “Big Data Algorithms” research group have been accepted for presentation at the A*-ranked ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA). SODA is the top conference in the field of algorithms and one of the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science. In 2025, the conference will take place in mid-January in New Orleans.

The “Big Data Algorithms” research group has been based at the University of Salzburg since 2022 and is led by Prof. Sebastian Forster. All four publications were developed as part of the DynASoAr project, funded through an ERC Starting Grant secured by Forster. The goal of the project is to study dynamic algorithms that can efficiently adapt to changes in input data.

December 4, 2024

Congratulations on the Successful Dissertation Defenses

Within just a few days, the Department of Computer Science had the pleasure of celebrating two successful dissertation defenses together with the doctoral candidates, their friends, and families.

After years of intensive and diligent work, Gregor Bankhamer (left in the picture) and Tijn de Vos (right in the picture) successfully completed their doctorates.

Mr. Bankhamer focused in his dissertation, titled “Randomized Algorithms for Distributed Consensus and Local Failover Routing,” on two fundamental problems in distributed systems.

November 20, 2024

Ana Sokolova: New Impulses for Formal Methods at the University of Salzburg

Ana Sokolova: New Impulses for Formal Methods at the University of Salzburg

On October 1, 2024, Ana Sokolova assumed the professorship for Formal Methods at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Salzburg. This appointment underscores the growing importance of this research field for the university and marks a strong commitment to the advancement of formal computer science.

Ana Sokolova was born in 1971 in Skopje, North Macedonia (then Yugoslavia), and graduated in 1989 from the renowned Mathematics and Computer Science High School Rade Jovčevski Korčagin. She completed her computer science degree at the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje with a diploma in 1994 and expanded her qualifications with a master’s degree in computer science and mathematics in 1999. Her PhD followed in 2005 at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and in 2016, Sokolova completed her habilitation at the University of Salzburg.