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.
Spotlight: Peter Druschel wins Mark Weiser Award
MPI-SWS faculty and scientific director Peter Druschel has been honored as the eighth recipient of the Mark Weiser Award -- the top international award in the field of operating systems.
Spotlight: Paul Francis joins the MPI-SWS faculty
Paul Francis joins the institute's faculty as a scientific director, effective Jan 1, 2009. Paul's work over the years has focused on network routing and addressing problems, with a particular interest in large and self-configuring systems.
Career opportunities:
Tenure-track faculty positions
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Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge), Tom Henzinger (EPFL), Barbara Liskov (MIT), John Mitchell (Stanford), Greg Morrisett (Harvard) and Robert Schlögl (FHI) join the institute's scientific advisory board.
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