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The MPIs for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern and Saarbruecken and the MPI for Informatics in Saarbruecken agree to form a joint administrative unit, headed by Volker Geiss with staff in both the Kasierslautern and the Saarbruecken locations. Volker currently heads the administrative unit of the MPI for Informatics.

Prof. Peter Druschel, Ph.D., accepts the position of Founding Director of the MPI for Software Systems. Peter comes from Rice University in Houston, TX, where he has spent eleven years as Assistant Professor (1994-2000), Associate Professor (2000-2002) and Full Professor (2002-) of Computer Science. Peter also spent time teaching and researching at the University of Paris VI, at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and at the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. [...]

Prof. Peter Druschel, Ph.D., accepts the position of Founding Director of the MPI for Software Systems. Peter comes from Rice University in Houston, TX, where he has spent eleven years as Assistant Professor (1994-2000), Associate Professor (2000-2002) and Full Professor (2002-) of Computer Science. Peter also spent time teaching and researching at the University of Paris VI, at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK, and at the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. [...]

On November 19, the Senate of the Max Planck Society approved the creation of the MPI for Software Systems. The institute will have two locations of equal scientific strength, one on the campus of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, and one on the campus of Saarland University in Saarbruecken.