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MPI-SWS faculty member Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, along with his co-authors, has won the 2013 WWW Best Paper Award for his paper „No Country for Old Members: User Lifecycle and Linguistic Change in Online Communities.“
MPI-SWS PhD student Juhi Kulshrestha was awarded a Google Anita Borg Scholarship. She joins Ezgi Cicek, who received an Anita Borg Scholarship in 2012. Juhi previously received a 2011 Google Fellowship for her work in social networking.
The packing of the DNA in a cell’s nucleus determines if and to what degree genes encoded in the DNA can be translated and regulated. Software tools developed at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics facilitate the analysis and interpretation of this epigenetic information.
A research project proposed by MPI-SWS faculty member Derek Dreyer has been selected for a 2013 Microsoft Research PhD Scholarship. The project is entitled „Compositional Verification of Scalable Joins by Protocol-Based Refinement“. Each year Microsoft selects approximately twenty projects to fund, based on proposals from research institutions across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The Scholarship funds a PhD student for three years.
Ein neues Tastaturlayout für Geräte mit berührungsempfindlichen Bildschirmen hat ein Team um Antti Oulasvirta vom Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken entworfen. Die neue Anordnung der Tasten beschleunigt die Zwei-Daumen-Eingabe deutlich. Mithilfe von Computeroptimierung und eines Modells von Daumenbewegungen untersuchten die Forscher Millionen von möglichen Layouts, um das mit den besten Eigenschaften zu finden. Eine Untersuchung bestätigte, dass nach kurzer Gewöhnungsphase [...]
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