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Paul Francis joins the institute’s faculty as a scientific director. Paul’s work over the years has focused on network routing and addressing problems, with a particular interest in large [...]

MPI-SWS faculty Peter Druschel has been honored as the eighth recipient of the Mark Weiser Award — the top international award in the field [...]

Saarbrücker Max-Planck-Forscher Holger Bast erhält Forschungspreis der Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung für seine bahnbrechenden Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der intelligenten und schnellen Suche in großen Datenmengen. Wer heutzutage im Internet recherchiert, benutzt Suchmaschinen, um die riesige Informationsmenge des Internets zu durchforsten. Aber je nachdem welche Begriffe man eingibt, unterscheiden sich die Ergebnisse stark und sind nicht immer hilfreich für den jeweiligen Zusammenhang. Was bleibt, ist [...]

Saarbrücker Max-Planck-Forscher entwickeln neue Methode zur dreidimensionalen Erfassung von durchsichtigen Objekten. 3D-Scanner, die Gegenstände im Computer dreidimensional abbilden, sind heute weit verbreitet, zum Beispiel im Computertrickfilm, der Archäologie, der Werkstückprüfung oder dem Prototypenbau. Sie konnten jedoch bislang keine Materialien scannen, die durchsichtig sind, stark glänzen oder sehr dunkle Flächen aufweisen. Wissenschaftler des Saarbrücker Max-Planck-Instituts für [...]

Prof. Dr. Peter Druschel erhält den diesjährigen Mark Weiser Preis der „Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGOPS“. Damit geht der in der Fachwelt renommierte und hochangesehene Preis zum ersten Mal in seiner Geschichte an einen Forscher außerhalb der USA. Die ACM-Gesellschaft ist der weltweit wichtigste und größte wissenschaftliche Dachverband in der Informatik. Sie vereint verschiedenste Forschungs-gemeinschaften, wie auch die Interessensgruppe SIGOPS (Special Interest Group on [...]

The institute is pleased to announce that Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge), Tom Henzinger (EPFL), Barbara Liskov (MIT), John Mitchell (Stanford), Greg Morrisett (Harvard) and Robert Schlögl (FHI) have agreed to join the institute’s scientific advisory board.

Michael Backes, Professor at Saarland University, is appointed as a Max Planck Fellow at the MPI for Software Systems for five years. The new Max Planck Fellow program aims to strengthen the cooperation between Max Planck institutes and universities. In addition to his duties at the University, Michael will head a small research group on Information Security and Cryptography at the institute.

A jury chaired by renowned architect Prof. Gunther Henn evaluates fifteen drafts submitted as part of an architecture competition for the design of the institute’s new buildings in Kaiserlautern and Saarbruecken. First prize is awarded to a design by the firm of Weinbrenner and Single in Nuertingen. The designs reflect a common architectural concept that fosters communication and cooperation, while each building has a distinct appearance that respects its situation within the campus of the [...]

Krishna Gummadi, Ph.D., accepts a position on the faculty of the MPI for Software Systems as an independent researcher. This position is comparable to a tenure-track Assitant Professor [...]

MPI-SWS PhD student Ashutosh Gupta and and faculty Andrey Rybalchenko, along with Rupak Majumdar (UCLA), have received the EAPLS best paper award for their TACAS’09 paper „From [...]

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.