Joël Ouaknine, along with his co-authors James Worrell and Florian Luca, has received a Distinguished Paper award at the 2021 ACM/IEEE 36th Annual Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2021) for his paper Universal Skolem Sets. Distinguished Paper awards are given to about 10% of papers at LICS. These are papers that,…
Ralf Jung and Bilal Zafar have each been awarded a 2021 Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement. The Max Planck Society awards the Otto Hahn Medal annually to young scientists in recognition of outstanding scientific achievement. Ralf was awarded the medal for his work on the first formal foundations for the cutting-edge…
MPI-SWS researchers Rupak Majumdar, Ramanathan S. Thinniyam, and Georg Zetzsche have received the EAPLS Best Paper Award for their TACAS 2021 paper: General Decidability Results for Asynchronous Shared-Memory Programs: Higher-Order and Beyond. In addition, a TACAS 2021 paper by Rosa Abbasi and Eva Darulova (along with their collaborators Jonas Schiffl, Mattias Ulbrich, and…
MPI-SWS participated jointly with the MPI for Informatics in the annual Girls' Day event on April 22, 2021. Our interactive digital program included programming robots and integrating machine learning models into dialog systems, as well as answering questions about computer science and the work as a computer scientist.Originally published at:
Ralf Jung's doctoral dissertation on "Understanding and Evolving the Rust Programming Language" has received the ETAPS Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2021. The award is given to the PhD student who has made the most original and influential contribution to the research areas in the scope of the ETAPS conferences, and has graduated…
