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Lorenzo Alvisi, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, 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 Peter Druschel and other MPI-SWS researchers on fault-tolerant computing for multi-core servers.

Björn Brandenburg, an MPI-SWS faculty member, has been awarded the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of mathematics, physical sciences, and engineering. The award—North America’s most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations—recognizes recent doctoral recipients who have already made unusually significant and original contributions to their fields.

Lorenzo Alvisi, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, 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 Peter Druschel and other MPI-SWS researchers on fault-tolerant computing for multi-core servers.

Ruzica Piskac, an MPI-SWS faculty member, has been awarded the 2012 Patrick Denantes Prize for her dissertation titled „Decision Procedures for Program Synthesis and Verification.“ The prize is awarded annually to the most outstanding master’s, doctoral or post-doctoral research project within the school of computer and communication sciences at EPFL.

Krebserkrankungen sind schwer zu behandeln, weil sich Tumore in jedem Patienten anders verhalten und im Laufe der Zeit verändern. Mehr Erfolg ist daher von Therapien zu erwarten, bei denen mehrere Medikamente miteinander kombiniert werden. Dafür müssen die molekularen Besonderheiten des jeweiligen Tumors bestimmt werden. Diesen Ansatz verfolgt Thomas Lengauer, Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, seit langem erfolgreich für die HIV-Therapie. Gemeinsam mit seinem früheren Mitarbeiter [...]

Krishna Gummadi and Farshad Kooti, along with Winter Mason and previous MPI-SWS postdoctoral fellow Meeyoung Cha, have received a best paper award at ICWSM 2012, for their paper „The Emergence of Conventions in Online Social Networks.“

MPI-SWS faculty Rupak Majumdar, along with his coauthors, has received two best paper awards: the EAPLS 2012 best paper award and the 2012 ACM [...]

Fourth-year PhD student Georg Neis won a 2012 Google PhD Fellowship for his work in Programming Technology. First-year PhD student Ezgi Cicek was awarded an Anita Borg Scholarship. They join MPI-SWS PhD student Juhi Kulshrestha, who received a 2011 Google Fellowship for her work in social networking.

MPI-SWS faculty member Björn Brandenburg, along with James H. Anderson (UNC), has received the ACM SIGBED EMSOFT 2011 best paper award for his paper „Real-time resource-sharing under clustered scheduling: mutex, reader-writer, and k-exclusion locks.“

MPI-SWS faculty Paul Francis has received the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award [...]

MPI-SWS faculty Rupak Majumdar has received the ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential PLDI (Programming Language Design and Implementation) Paper [...]

We are pleased to announce that three new faculty will join MPI-SWS [...]

Viele Frauen sind auf der Suche nach dem perfekten Make-up für ihren Gesichtstyp. Dabei kann ihnen jetzt der Computer weiter helfen. Forscher des Max-Planck-Instituts für Informatik in Saarbrücken haben ein Programm entwickelt, das für ein fotografiertes Frauengesicht das passende Make-up auswählt und direkt am Bildschirm anzeigt. Es nutzt dafür eine Datenbank mit geschminkten Gesichtern und überträgt besonders vorteilhafte Schmink-Varianten auf Augen, Lippen und Teint. Das virtuelle Make-up [...]