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Biologists use modern high-density microarrays to measure the genome-wide expression of exons, the essential parts of alternatively spliced genes. In particular, exons of many genes encode protein variants involved with important cellular processes. While the measured differences between the variants are often quite small, their distinct biological effects can be profound. Protein variants from the same gene might even have opposing functional consequences. Therefore, scientists from the Max Planck [...]

Andreas Haeberlen has been awarded the 2009 Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievement. The medal, and its accompanying monetary prize, will be presented to Andreas at the Max Planck society’s annual General Assembly in Hannover on June 16. Andreas’s medal was awarded for „pioneering work on accountability in distributed computer systems, in particular for the design, implementation and demonstration of practical techniques for the reliable and tamper-proof detection [...]

Robert Harper has been appointed as the institute’s first external scientific member. Dr. Harper is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he conducts research on programming language design and implementation. Bob will be visiting the institute in Summer 2010.

Am 3. Februar hat das „Indo German Max Planck Center für Computer Science“ in Delhi seine Arbeit begonnen. Das neue Max Planck Center wird die Zusammenarbeit mit Indien im Bereich Computerwissenschaften weiter ausbauen. „Ziel ist es ein Exzellenz-Zentrum zu schaffen, in dem nicht nur Top-Forschung betrieben wird, sondern auch jungen Wissenschaftlern Karrierechancen in Indien eröffnet werden“, sagt Peter Gruss, Präsident der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Gleichzeitig sollen herausragende [...]

Umut Acar joins the institute’s faculty, starting in January 2010. Umut’s research interests are in language and algorithm design and implementation, particularly for dynamic systems that interact with changing data from various sources, such as users and the physical environment.