At a general meeting of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 248 Center for Perspicuous Computing (CPEC), Raimund Dachselt was elected as the new spokesperson. Since January 2025, he has headed the transregional research network – together with the now vice spokesperson, Prof. Holger Hermanns, from Saarland University. The large-scale collaborative research initiative with 21 project leaders and about 80 researchers has been funded by the DFG since 2019 and is now in its second four-year funding period until the end of 2026.
Contemporary IT- and AI-based systems, subsystems, and applications do not have built-in concepts to explicate their behavior. They generate and propagate outcomes of computations, but are not meant to provide explications, justifications, or plausibilisations of the outcomes. They are not perspicuous.
To overcome these limitations, CPEC has been working on the scientific challenge of a seamless support for perspicuity across the entire system lifecycle, spanning design-time, run-time, and, in case of a malfunctioning or an optimisation effort, inspection-time. CPEC lays the scientific foundations for designing, analysing, and interacting with perspicuous systems, computerised systems that explicate their functioning. More information can be found at the CPEC Website.