The paper Tree Borrows (authored by Neven Villani, Johannes Hostert, Derek Dreyer, and Ralf Jung), not only received a Distinguished Paper Award at PLDI'25, but in the year 2025 it was the single most downloaded article from all issues of the entire PACMPL (the ACM journal publishing the proceedings of POPL,…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) have authored a total of 5 papers accepted to POPL 2026. This is the ninth year in a row that MPI-SWS researchers have published 5+ papers in POPL. Congratulations to all our POPL authors! A Verified High-Performance Composable Object…
Toghrul Karimov, a graduate student in Joël Ouaknine's Foundations of Automatic Verification Group, has received the 2025 Ackermann Award for his PhD thesis, “Algorithmic Verification of Linear Dynamical Systems.” The Ackermann Award is an international prize presented annually to the author of an exceptional doctoral dissertation in the field of…
MPI-SWS-Fakultätsmitglied Peter Druschel wurde mit dem 2025 IEEE TCDP Outstanding Technical Achievement Award für seine bahnbrechenden Beiträge zum Entwurf und zur Implementierung großskaliger verteilter Systeme ausgezeichnet. Weitere Informationen zu der Auszeichnung und den bisherigen Preisträgern finden Sie hier.
MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer and his collaborators made a very strong showing at the top programming language conferences this year. They received Distinguished Paper Awards for two papers at PLDI 2025 and one at POPL 2025. At PLDI this year, only 6 papers were given this award out of…
