Every semester, the the computer science students council awards the Busy Beaver, a prize for courses that have been rated as outstandingly good by students in the evaluation forms. We currently award the prize in three categories: basic lectures, core and advanced lectures, and proseminars and seminars.
In the following table you will find the modules and lecturers that have been awarded the Busy Beaver in the past.
The name Busy Beaver is derived from Turing machines with special properties.
Feedback
If you want to propose a lecture for the busy beaver award or simply want to provide feedback for an outstanding lecture, write a mail to busy-beaver@cs.fs.uni-saarland.de!
Winners
The following table presents the past winners of the busy beaver award
| Semester | Base Lectures | Core or Advanced Lectures | Proseminars or Seminars |
|---|---|---|---|
| SS 2023 | Concurrent Programming – Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns, Felix Freiberger | Usabale Security & Privacy – Dr. Katharina Krombholz | Specification-Based Testing and Debugging – Prof. Dr. Andreas Zeller, Dr. Dominik Steinhöfel |
| WS 22/23 | Bioinformatik 3 – Prof. Dr. Volkhard Helms Special Price of the Jury: Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures – Prof. Dr. Karl Bringmann | Hands-On Dependability – Dr. Andreas Schmidt | Wireless and Mobile Security – Dr. Mridula Singh |
| SS 2022 | Foundations of Cyber Security II – Dr. Michael Schwarz | Embedded Systems – Prof. Dr. Martina Maggio | Build an 8-bit Computer from Scratch – Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hack |
| WS 21/22 | Grundlagen der Theoretischen Informatik – Prof. Dr. Markus Bläser | Semantics – Prof. Dr. Derek Dreyer Modern Methods in Drug Discovery – Dr. Michael Hutter | Privacy of Machine Learning – Dr. Yang Zhang |
| SS 2021 | Big Data Engineering – Prof. Dr. Jens Dittrich | Algorithms for Sequence Analysis – Prof. Dr. Sven Rahmann | Touch and Haptic Interfaces – Prof. Dr. Jürgen Steimle |
| WS 20/21 | Programming 1 – Prof. Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner | Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses – Dr. Michael Schwarz | – / – |
| SS 2020 | – / – | – / – | – / – |
| WS 19/20 | – / – | – / – | – / – |
| SS 2019 | Nebenläufige Programmierung – Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns | Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision – Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert | Selected Topics in Mobile Security – Dr. Sven Bugiel |
| WS 18/19 | Grundlagen der Cybersicherheit – Dr. Ben Stock | Malware Analysis and Intrusion Detection – Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow Image Acquisition Methods – Dr. Pascal Peter | – / – |
| SS 2018 | Programmierung 2 – Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hack – Prof. Dr. Jörg Hoffmann | Web Security – Ben Stock | Program Synthesis – Eva Darulova |
| WS 17/18 | Programmierung 1 – Prof. Dr. Bernd Finkbeiner | Modern Methods in Drug Discovery – Dr. Michael Hutter | Einführung in Data Science – Prof. Dr. Jens Dittrich |
| SS 2017 | Nebenläufige Programmierung – Prof. Dr. Holger Herrmanns Grundlagen der Cybersicherheit 2 – Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow | Image Compression – Dr. Pascal Tobias Peter | Einführung in 3D User Interfaces – Dr. Florian Daiber |
| WS 16/17 | Mathematik für Informatiker III – Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert | Malware Analysis and Intrusion Detection – Prof. Dr. Christian Rossow | Recent Topics in HCI – Felix Kosmalla – Christian Lander |
| SS 2016 | Bioinformatik 2 – Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Lenhof | Automated Reasoning II – Dr. Uwe Waldmann | Computer Vision for Computer Graphics – Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt – Dr. Christian Richardt – Dr. Dan Casas |
| WS 15/16 | Bioinformatik 1 – Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Lenhof | Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision – Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert | Advanced Data Analysis with Matrices and Tensors – Dr. Pauli Miettinen |
| SS 2015 | Programmierung 2 – Prof. Dr. Sebastian Hack | Topics in Algorithmic Data Analysis Dr. Jilles Vreeken | Affective Lighting – Dr. Sven Gehring – Dr. Markus Löchtefeld |
| WS 14/15 | Grundlagen der Cybersicherheit – Prof. Dr. Michael Backes | Elements of Statistical Learning – Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lengauer | Multi-View Data Mining – Dr. Pauli Miettinen |
| SS 2014 | – / – | Image Acquisition Methods – Prof. Dr. Weickert – Pascal Peter | Hacking – Prof. Dr. Michael Backes – Prof. Dr. Christoph Sorge |
| WS 13/14 | Programmierung 1 – Prof. Dr. Holger Hermanns | Automatic Planning – Prof. Dr. Jörg Hoffmann | Advances in Image Processing and Computer Vision – Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert |
| SS 2013 | Informationssysteme – Prof. Dr. Jens Dittrich | Elements of Statistical Learning 1 – Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lengauer | – / – |
| WS 12/13 | Bioinformatik 1 – Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Lenhof | Telecommunications 1 – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Herfet | Non-Traditional Data Management – Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Michel – Dr. Rainer Gemulla |
| SS 2012 | Mathematik für Informatiker 2 – Dr. Oliver Labs | Optimization – Dr. Reto Spöhel – Dr. Rob van Stee | Mobile Interaction Design – Markus Loechtefeld |
| WS 11/12 | – / – | Image Processing and Computer Vision – Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert | – / – |
| SS 2011 | Nebenläufige Programmierung – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Hermanns | Database Systems – Prof. Dr. Jens Dittrich | – / – |
| WS 10/11 | |||
| SS 2010 | |||
| semester | basic lectures | core or advanced lectures | proseminars or seminars |
Before that there were no distinction between categories.
| year | module |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Practical Aspects of Security – Prof. Dr. Michael Backes |
| 2008 | Correspondence Problems in Computer Vision – Dr. Andrés Bruhn |
| 2007 | Cryptography – Prof. Dr. Michael Backes |
| 2006 | Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision – Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert |
| 2005 | Constraint Programming – Prof. Dr. Gert Smolka |
| 2004 | Programmierung 1 – Prof. Dr. Gert Smolka Automated Reasoning – Dr. Uwe Waldmann |
| 2003 | Theoretische Informatik – Prof. Dr. Martin Skutella Differential Equations in Image Processing and Computer Vision – Prof. Dr. Joachim Weickert |
| year | module |