“Computer systems permeate
every aspect of human endeavor”

The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems conducts high-risk, high-impact research in all areas related to the design, analysis, modeling, implementation and evaluation of complex software systems.

It is one of eighty institutes run by the Max Planck Society, which is world-renowned for its basic research in medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, technology and the humanities.

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Björn Brandenburg wins EMSOFT best paper award

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."

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Two test of time awards

Two MPI-SWS faculty have recently won prestigious test of time awards. Rupak Majumdar has received the ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential PLDI (Programming Language Design and Implementation) Paper Award for 2011 and Paul Francis has received the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for 2011.

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