On January 9, 2020, MPI-SWS faculty member Paul Francis published the article Dear Differential Privacy: Put Up or Shut Up, on Medium. The article, which has now reached 1000 views, describes the failure of Differential Privacy as the basis for data protection in the Facebook / Social Sciences One project. The…
Software systems have become ubiquitous in our modern world and, consequently, so have bugs and glitches. While many software failures are harmless and often merely annoying, some can have catastrophic consequences. Just imagine the dire results of an autonomous car failing to stop at a red traffic light or a…
Abir De, a postdoc alumni of the Human-Centric Machine Learning group, has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Bombay. Congratulations Abir! Abir's research focuses on learning over graphs and human centric machine learning. You can find out more about his work at…
Debasmita Lohar, a doctoral student at MPI-SWS, has received an award for the best presentation at the iFM 2019 PhD Symposium. The award was given for her talk on "Sound Probabilistic Numerical Error Analysis.”
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) and the new Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) have authored a total of 8 papers accepted to POPL 2020 (over 10% of all accepted papers). This is the third year in a row that MPI-SWS researchers have published…
