“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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Spotlight: Rupak Majumdar joins the MPI-SWS faculty

Rupak Majumdar joins the institute's faculty as a scientific director, effective June, 2010. 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.

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Spotlight: Michael Backes awarded an ERC Starting Grant, selected by Technology Review as a "Young Innovator"

MPI-SWS fellow Michael Backes has been honored as a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant 2009. Michael was also recently selected by the editors of Technology Review as one of the 35 young innovators under the age of 35 whose work they found most exciting.

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Spotlight: MPI-SWS graduates first four students

This spring, MPI-SWS graduated its first four students—Andreas Haeberlen, Alan Mislove, Animesh Nandi, and Atul Singh. All four students have landed competitive academic or research positions in a very tight job market.

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Recent spotlights

Career opportunities:

Tenure-track openings

Postdoctoral positions

Graduate studies

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Architect's rendering of new institute buildings:

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Lectures:

Institute Colloquium

Distinguished Lecture Series

Computing research organizations in the surrounding area:

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