Derek Dreyer has been selected as general chair of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, to be held August 19-21, 2019 in Berlin. ICFP is an international conference providing a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional…
A long-standing problem both within research and in society generally is that of how to analyze data about people without risking the privacy of those people. There is an ever-growing amount of data about people: medical, financial, social, government, geo-location, etc. This data is very valuable in terms of better…
MPI-SWS Director Paul Francis and his group have launched the Open GDA Score Project at www.gda-score.org. This is an open project to develop a set of tools and databases to generate anonymity scores for any data anonymization technique. The GDA Score, which stands for General Data Anonymity Score, is the first data…
The article "Enhancing Human Learning via spaced repetition optimization", coauthored by MPI-SWS and MPI-IS researchers, has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a highly prestigious journal. The (open-access) article can be found here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1815156116.
Vineet Rajani and Deepak Garg, along with their co-authors Marco Vassena, Alejandro Russo and Deian Stefan, have won a Distinguished Paper Award at the 2019 ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (POPL 2019) for their paper titled "From fine- to coarse-grained dynamic information flow control and back".
