Martina Maggio wurde mit einem Advanced Grant des Europäischen Forschungsrats (ERC) ausgezeichnet, einem der renommiertesten Förderprogramme in Europa. Mit bis zu 2,5 Millionen Euro Förderung möchte die Informatikerin die Zertifizierung der Sicherheit computergesteuerter Systeme verbessern, die zeitlichen Schwankungen während des Betriebs unterliegen. Diese grundlegende Herausforderung moderner cyber-physikalischer Systeme hat weitreichende…
MPI-SWS Scientific Director Rupak Majumdar has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant worth approximately €2.5 million for his project „Pascal: Formal Performance Analysis at Scale“. The project aims to develop new mathematical foundations and practical tools for analyzing and verifying the performance and resilience of large-scale distributed computer systems. Whether…
The ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN) has awarded their 2026 Distinguished Service Award to MPI-SWS Scientific Director Derek Dreyer. The award citation reads as follows: Derek Dreyer has set an exemplary standard of service within the PL community. Throughout the years, Derek has served in almost every…
The new UN report on the environmental impact of AI has reignited the debate over data center resource consumption. The focus is on energy demand, water consumption, and CO₂ emissions during the training and operation of generative AI systems. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Maaß, head of the DFKI research division Smart…
Paris/Berlin, 18 June 2026 – The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) are taking their existing partnership to the next level: today the two leading research organizations signed an agreement at Vivatech in Paris to establish…
