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News 01-07-2011 Nanospeicher bringen Computer groß raus Computer dienen heute als Musikbox, Filmarchiv und Fotoalbum. Sie müssen daher immer größere Datenmengen schnell zugänglich machen. Wissenschaftler des Max-Planck-Instituts für intelligente Systeme in Stuttgart und des Hallenser Max-Planck-Instituts für Mikrostrukturphysik bereiten den Weg für magnetische Speichermaterialien, die das ermöglichen, und nutzen dabei geschickt die ganz eigenen Gesetze der Nanowelt aus. Text Christian Meier
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News 11-05-2011 Software for the discovery of new crystal structures The software enables electron microscopes to extract more information about the composition of crystals. A new software called QED (Quantitative Electron Diffraction), which has been licensed by Max Planck Innovation, has now been released by HREM Research Inc., a Japan based company, which is developing products and services in the field of High-Resolution Electron Microscopy. QED allows transmission electron microscopes to acquire novel kinds of data, opening up new possibilities in electron crystallography.
Award 01-05-2011 Christian Böhm: 2. Preis beim Science2Start Ideenwettbewerb der BioRegio STERN (2011)
News 12-04-2011 A quick switch for magnetic needles Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster Microscopically tiny ferromagnetic platelets exhibit a phenomenon which could be exploited in the future for particularly stable magnetic data storage: so-called magnetic vortex cores. These are needle-shaped magnetic structures measuring 20 nanometres (millionths of a millimetre) in diameter. Five years ago, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research) in Stuttgart found a way to reverse the magnetic field needles despite their stability using only a tiny amount of energy so that their tips pointed in the opposite direction. Such a switching process is necessary to enable the vortex cores to be used in data processing. The Stuttgart scientists have now discovered a new mechanism which makes this switching process at least 20 times faster and confines it to a far smaller region than before. Magnetic vortex cores could thus provide a means of data storage which is stable, fast and greatly miniaturized.
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Modern Magnetic Systems News 12-04-2011 A quick switch for magnetic needles Magnetic vortex cores, which can be used as particularly stable storage points for data bits, can now be switched much faster. Microscopically tiny ferromagnetic platelets exhibit a phenomenon which could be exploited in the future for particularly stable magnetic data storage: so-called magnetic vortex cores. These are needle-shaped magnetic structures measuring 20 nanometres (millionths of a millimetre) in diameter. Five years ago, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research) in Stuttgart found a way to reverse the magnetic field needles despite their stability using only a tiny amount of energy so that their tips pointed in the opposite direction. Such a switching process is necessary to enable the vortex cores to be used in data processing. The Stuttgart scientists have now discovered a new mechanism which makes this switching process at least 20 times faster and confines it to a far smaller region than before. Magnetic vortex cores could thus provide a means of data storage which is stable, fast and greatly miniaturized. Hermann Stoll
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Award 05-04-2011 Silke Kurz: Artur-Fischer-Preis 2011
News 16-03-2011 Intelligent systems for tomorrow’s world Max Planck Research Award 2011 for Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf Sebastian Thrun from Stanford University and Bernhard Schölkopf from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart have been awarded the 2011 Max Planck Research Award, which is endowed with 750,000 euros for each award winner. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society honour two outstanding scientists who have brought significant progress to a research field that is at the interface of different disciplines. Bernhard Schölkopf
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Award 09-03-2011 Xiaoke Mu: Best Poster Award at the Microscopy Conference 2011
Perceiving Systems News 17-02-2011 Robots learn human perception Michael J. Black teaches computers to analyse data on their environment as quickly and reliably as the human brain.
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News 15-02-2011 New research emphasis "Intelligent Systems" Max Planck Society establishes highly innovative research facility for "Intelligent Systems" in Baden-Württemberg The Max Planck Society is restructuring the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, thereby creating a research facility that will focus on the area of intelligent systems. This includes computer sciences and biology, as well as innovative aspects of materials research, already part of the work at the Institute. In addition to the Stuttgart location, another division of the Institute will be established in Tübingen. Each site will have four research departments. To reflect its new orientation, the Institute will also be given a new name. Subject to approval from the Max Planck Society's Senate, it will be called the "Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems". Max Planck Society President, Peter Gruss introduced the new scientific concept of the Institute together with Minister-President Stefan Mappus (CDU) at a regional press conference in Stuttgart. Bernhard Schölkopf Michael Black
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Award 07-02-2011 Dr. Markus Rauscher: Günter Petzow Prize 2011
Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Award 08-01-2011 Peer Fischer: ERC Starting Grant (2012)
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Bernhard Schölkopf: Annual Max Planck Research Award
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Harold Christopher Burger, and Stefan Harmeling: DAGM 2011 Prize for "Improving Denoising Algorithms via a Multi-Scale Meta-Procedure". 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Jan Peters: Dick Volz Award Best 2007 US Ph.D. Thesis Runner-Up Award.
Award 01-01-2011 Matthias Troendle : Molecular Physics Longuet-Higgins Young Author´s Prize 2011
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Suvrit Sra: SIAM Outstanding Paper Prizes for his paper "The Metric Nearness Problem," which appeared in the SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications (SIMAX).
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Thorsten Zander: Willumeit award for his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Utilizing Brain-Computer Interfaces for Human-Machine Systems".
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Moritz Grosse-Wentrup and Bernhard Schölkopf: "Annual BCI Research Award" for their project "What are the neurophysiological causes of performance variations in brain-computer interfacing?"
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Suvrit Sra: Best Paper Runner up Award in Data Mining at The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2011 for "Fast Projections onto L1,q-Norm Balls for Grouped Feature Selection".      
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2011 Gustavo Camps-Valls, Joris Mooij, and Bernhard Schölkopf: were selected for the 'IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2011 Letters' Prize Paper Award for "Remote Sensing Feature Selection by Kernel Dependence estimation".
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Bernhard Schölkopf: Inclusion in the list of 'ISI Highly Cited Researchers'
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Jan Peters, Jun Morimoto, Nick Roy, Jun Nakanishi: Most Active Technical Committee Award of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society at ICRA 2010
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Joris Mooij: Winner of two categories of the 2010 UAI Approximate Inference Challenge, 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 José M. Leiva, Suzanne M.M. Martens: winning team of the Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) 2010 Competition: Mind Reading
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, Jure Leskovec, and Andreas Krause: Best Paper Award Honorable Mention at the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'2010) for the paper: "Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence."
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Hirotaka Hachiya, Jan Peters, Mashashi Sugiyama: Young Researchers Award from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society of the Japan Chapter for their paper "Adaptive Importance Sampling with Automatic Model Selection in Reward Weighted Regression" presented at the Workshop of IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Neurocomputing (March 9-11, 2010). 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Carl Edward Rasmussen and Chris Williams: 2009 DeGroot Prize for textbooks or monographs concerned with fundamental issues of statistical inference, decision theory and/or statistical applications, and chosen based on their novelty, thoroughness, timeliness, and importance of their intellectual scope: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning, MIT Press 2006. 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Oliver Kroemer, Renaud Detry, Justus Piater, Jan Peters: Best Paper Award of the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO) for: "Grasping with Vision Descriptors and Motor Primitives".
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2010 Povilas Daniusis, Dominik Janzing, Joris Mooij, Jakob Zscheischler, Bastian Steudel, Kun Zhang,Bernhard Schölkof: Best student paper award for: "Inferring Deterministic Causal Relations", 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2009 Michael Hirsch, Stefan Harmeling, Bernhard Schölkopf: top score in 'low noise' GREAT08 PASCAL competition (Gravitational Lensing and Accuracy Testing 2008) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2009 Nino Shervashidze, Karsten Borgwardt: Fast Subtree Kernels on Graphs, Outstanding student paper award, Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2009 Reshad Hosseini, Matthias Bethge: prize winning method for the highest performance in the main challenge of GREAT08 PASCAL competition (Gravitational Lensing and Accuracy Testing 2008)
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2009 Bharath Sriperumbudur, Kenji Fukumizu, Arthur Gretton, Gert Lanckriet, Bernhard Schölkopf: Kernel Choice and Classifiability for RKHS Embeddings of Probability Distributions, Honorable Mention, Outstanding student paper award, Twenty-Third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2009 Christian Walder, Martin Breidt, Heinrich Bülthoff, Bernhard Schölkopf, Cristobal Curio: Markerless 3D Face Tracking, Runner up prize of the conference of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2009 Stefan Harmeling, Michael Hirsch, Suvrit Sra, Bernhard Schölkopf: Online Blind Deconvolution with Super-Resolution & Saturation Correction, Best Poster Award at the 1st International Conference on Cosmology and Statistics (CosmoStats09) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2009 Matthias Hofmann, Florian Steinke, Verena Scheel, Guillaume Charpiat, Jason Farquhar, Philip Aschoff,Michael Brady, Bernhard Schölkopf and Bernd J. Pichler: MRI-Based Attenuation Correction for PET/MRI: A Novel Approach Combining Pattern Recognition and Atlas Registration, Best Paper Awards 2008 of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Christoph H. Lampert, Matthew B. Blaschko: Multiple Kernel Learning Approach to Joint Multi-Class Object Detection, Main Prize of the conference of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Duy Nguyen-Tuong, Jan Peters: Local Gaussian Processes Regression for Real-time Model-based Robot Control, Best paper award Finalist, International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Matthew B. Blaschko, Christoph H. Lampert: Learning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression, Best student paper award, The 10th European Conference on Computer 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Moritz Große-Wentrup: Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize for the PhD thesis "Feature Extraction in non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces" 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Stefanie Jegelka: Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial-Scholarship 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Markus Maier, Ulrike von Luxburg, Matthias Hein: Influence of Graph Construction on Graph-based Clustering Measures, Outstanding student paper award, Twenty-Second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Ulrike von Luxburg: appointed member of the "Junge Akademie", the young scientists' branch of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften - BBAW) and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina)
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Christoph H. Lampert, Matthew B. Blaschko, Thomas Hofmann: Beyond Sliding Windows: Object Localization by Efficient Subwindow Search, Best Paper Award, Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Suzanna M M Martens, Chiara Rabotti, Massimo Mischi and Rob J Sluijter: Martin Black Prize 2007 best article published in Physiological Measurement: A robust fetal ECG detection method for abdominal recordings, Physiol. Meas. 28 No 4 (April 2007) 373-388, doi: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/4/004 (2008) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2008 Sören Sonnenburg, Alexander Zien, Petra Philips, and Gunnar Rätsch: POIMs: Positional Oligomer Importance Matrices - Understanding Support Vector Machine Based Signal Detectors, Best Student Paper Award of the 16th Annual International Conference Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2007 Elisabeth Georgii: Best Poster Award, 3rd Student Council Symposium at the 15th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systens for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2007 Markus Maier: Cluster Identification in Nearest-Neighbor Graphs. E.M. Gold Award at the 18th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT) 
Empirical Inference Award 01-01-2007 Wolf Kienzle, Peter Gehler: Winner of the defect detection competition at the 29th Annual Meeting of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM)