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MPI-SWS postdoctoral fellow Sadegh Soudjani has been awarded the DISC Best PhD-Thesis Award for the best PhD thesis defended in 2014 in the Netherlands in the area of systems and control. Dr. Soudjani received the award for the excellent quality of his PhD Thesis „Formal Abstraction for Automated Verification and Synthesis of Stochastic Systems“ for which he obtained the doctoral degree at Delft University of Technology in November.

Patrick Loiseau, an Assistant Professor in the Data Science department at EURECOM, has been selected for a prestigious Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This award provides support for him to spend up to a year at the institute, where he will work with Krishna Gummadi and other MPI-SWS researchers on security and privacy issues in social computing systems.

MPI-SWS postdoctoral fellow Rijurekha won the 2014 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award by ACM-India for her thesis titled „Different Sensing Modalities for Traffic Monitoring in Developing Regions“. Dr. Sen recently joined the MPI-SWS Distributed Systems and Social Computing research groups.

Wer bisher eine Grußkarte an die Liebsten drucken wollte, konnte diese nur durch bunte Grafiken, extravagante Schrifttypen und edles Papier aufwerten. Doch wie wäre es, wenn man auf dem heimischen Drucker gleich hauchdünne Bildschirme in das Papier einarbeiten könnte, die selber entworfene Symbole anzeigen oder sogar auf Berührungen reagieren? Nicht nur das ermöglichen nun Saarbrücker Forscher unter anderem vom Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik. Sie haben einen Ansatz entwickelt, mit dessen [...]