Comment by ahartmetz
5 days ago
Eh, at least you have the ETH and EPFL. Germany has... TU München and Uni Saarbrücken? I once met a CS postdoc from Uni Saarbrücken who was (and is) doing interesting stuff - he's a professor in Switzerland now.
5 days ago
Eh, at least you have the ETH and EPFL. Germany has... TU München and Uni Saarbrücken? I once met a CS postdoc from Uni Saarbrücken who was (and is) doing interesting stuff - he's a professor in Switzerland now.
Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.
Right, I was like... were there one or two in München?, and I took the one I last heard of (Umbra DB / CedarDB, on HN). And I forgot about Aachen.
Wondering what specific field of CS you're referring to, I'm seeing a much wider spread (and Saarbrücken does not even ring a bell). I was attending LMU and I have not kept up with the database stuff the last years from there but I feel like they published a lot of stuff.
I find engineering-type stuff (kernels and hypervisors, programming languages, databases, concurrency, computer graphics, even proof assistants, deep learning now obviously, ...) most important since my impression of many German CS professors is that they would prefer to be mathematicians. There's a ton of interesting theory to be found in sufficiently advanced engineering, but you don't get any of that if you refuse to touch it. IMO, too little engineering is the main disease of German computer science.