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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 [...]

Two MPI-SWS alumni — Andreas Haeberlen and Alan Mislove — have received NSF CAREER awards. The CAREER award is the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research.

Rupak Majumdar joins the institute’s faculty as a scientific director. Rupak’s research interests are in computer-aided verification and control of reactive, real-time, hybrid, and probabilistic systems; software verification and programming languages; and logic and automata theory.

Viktor Vafeiadis joins the institute’s faculty, starting in October 2010. Viktor’s research interests are in software analysis and verification, programming languages, programming logics, [...]

A study by MPI-SWS researchers Saikat Guha (now at Microsoft Research), Bin Cheng, and Paul Francis has been highlighted on CNN, NPR, The Washington Post, and [...]

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 [...]