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Johannes Gehrke, a professor at Cornell University, has been selected for a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award will provide support for him to spend eight months in Germany, working with Peter Druschel and other MPI-SWS researchers on data-intensive distributed systems that make up the software infrastructure inside such large Web companies as Amazon, Yahoo! and Google.

Ab dem 01.10.2010 bezieht die neueste Arbeitsgruppe des MPI für Informatik ihre Räumlichkeiten in Saarbrücken und beendet damit die Umzugsphase von Darmstadt nach Saarbrücken. Mit Beitritt der neuen Arbeitsgruppe unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele erreicht das MPII nun seine planmäßige Ausbaugröße. Schieles wissenschaftliche Team forscht an aktuellen Themen der Computer-Vision und befasst sich mit der Verarbeitung multisensorischer Informationen.

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.