There are a lot of tight cooperations of our computer science with other research institutes and industry. At present the computer science department participates in the SFB 378 (with computational linguistics), the Center for Bioinformatics and three graduate schools. Four professors from the Faculty of Law and Economics and of the Department of Computational Linguistics are associated.

• Participation in the Information Society Technologies Project of the EC ARTIST (Advanced Real-Time Systems) with other universities and industry
  http://www.systemes-critiques.org/ARTIST
• Official Cooperation with the universities of Tomsk und Khabarovsk in Russia. A common computer science master program has been established with Khabarovsk.
• Cooperation with Intel in the area of real-time ray tracing.
• Cooperations with the Humboldt Award winner Tom Reps, University of Wisconsin and the Friedrich-Bessel-Award winner Mooly Sagiv, University of Tel Aviv.
• Verisoft, funded by the German Research Council (DFG) with numerous partners from universities and industry (e.g. IBM, Siemens, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science). Project head is Professor Paul from Saarland University).
• The Computer Science Department and the MPI are also important partners in AVACS

It is evident that the 18 chairs of the Computer Science Department successfully combine theory and practice by their work. The Saarland University was an early pioneer in teaching computer science linked to other disciplines, and has outstanding international reputation in bioinformatics, computational linguistics, business information systems, medical information systems and technology, etc.