This evening, State Secretary Jürgen Lennartz will present the Journalist Prize for Computer Science awarded by the Saarland State Chancellery. The main prizes in the categories print, radio and television will go to editors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, the Hessischer Rundfunk and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk. The three main prizes are each endowed with 5,000 euros. The Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) is funding a special prize worth 1,000 euros to Thomas Reintjes for a contribution to Deutschlandfunk.
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Felix Klein, PhD student at the Chair of Computer Graphics at Saarland University, was honored with the German Developer Award in the category "Best Indie Game" on December 5th in Cologne for the game "Crosscode" which he conceived and developed. "Indie games", also known as "independent video games", are computer games that were launched on the market without the help of a financially powerful distributor. The German Developer Award is regarded as "the most important award for outstanding achievements in the development of video games from German-speaking countries", according to the organizers of the competition.
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