Tino Hempel, teacher of mathematics, physics and computer science at the Richard-Wossido-Gymnasium in the city of Ribnitz-Damgarten in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been awarded the teacher prize of the Saarbrücken computer science in Munich. Hempel accepted the prize endowed with 2,500 euros at the 109th Federal Congress of the "Verbandes zur Förderung des MINT-Unterricht", MNU for short.
The US multinational corporation General Motors has already announced the first self-driving car for the coming year; Saarland's scientists are also researching this new vehicle type. Hence, "Autonomous driving in the region and beyond" was the title of the IT theme evening, which attracted more than 60 people on March 15 to the visualization center of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).