MPI-SWS faculty member Krishna Gummadi and MPI-SWS alumnus Alan Mislove have been awarded a "Secure the Internet" grant by Facebook. Their proposal, “Towards privacy-protecting aggregate statistics in PII-based targeted advertising,” has been awarded $60,000 to develop techniques for revealing advertising statistics that provide hard guarantees of user privacy, based on a (principles-first)…
MPI-SWS faculty member Jonathan Mace has received an honorable mention for the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award. Launched in 2013, the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award was created by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (ACM SIGOPS) to recognize research in software systems and…
Applications are invited for tenure-track faculty in all areas of computer science. Pending final approval, we expect to fill one position. A doctoral degree in computer science or related areas and an outstanding research record are required. Successful candidates are expected to build a team and pursue a highly…
Maria Christakis and Eva Darulova are teaching Program Analysis at TU Kaiserslautern and Saarland University. This class is co-taught with Jan Reinecke from Saarland University and covers both static and dynamic analysis.
The following five MPI-SWS papers have been accepted to NIPS 2018, the flagship conference in machine learning: Fairness Behind a Veil of Ignorance: A Welfare Analysis for Automated Decision Making Teaching Inverse Reinforcement Learners via Features and Demonstrations Understanding the Role of Adaptivity in Machine Teaching: The Case of Version…
