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: Paul Francis joins the MPI-SWS faculty
Paul's work has had tremendous impact on both research and industrial
practice. He is best known for inventing Network Address
Translation (NAT), shared multicast trees (which form the
basis of PIM-SM), and the use of multiple addresses to scale
routing in the face of site multihoming, which was adopted by
IPv6.
Paul joins MPI-SWS from Cornell University, where
he was on the faculty of the computer science department.
Prior to that, Paul spent many years in industry labs such as
Bellcore, NTT Research Labs in Tokyo, ACIRI in Berkeley, and
at several Silicon Valley startups.
Career opportunities:
Tenure-track faculty positions
News:
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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