
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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MPI-SWS faculty member Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil's work on the memorability of language was recently covered in a New York Times article about the computational analysis of cultural texts. This work was conducted at Cornell University with Justin Cheng, Jon Kleinberg and Lillian Lee.
Björn Brandenburg receives EDAA dissertation award
MPI-SWS faculty member Björn Brandenburg has won the 2012 EDAA Outstanding Dissertations Award in the category "New directions in embedded system design and embedded software", to be presented at the DATE 2013 conference in March. This marks the third award Brandenburg has received for his dissertation.
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