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The CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems takes place this year from April 26^th to May 1^st in Yokohama, Japan. Scientists from MPI-SP are presenting several studies at this event covering a broad range of topics from contact tracing to Virtual Reality advertising. more

In automated software testing, computer scientists employ automatic tools such as fuzzers to detect security flaws. But how long should the fuzzers test the software to guarantee that there are no bugs? Scientists at MPI-SP come up with a mathematical calculation based on probabilities. more

Until February 2025, Alessandro Fabris was a postdoctoral researcher in the Responsible Computing Group at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. In March, he began the next chapter of his career as an assistant professor at the University of Trieste. Before he left, Alessandro answered a few questions about his time at the institute and his experience in Germany. more

Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights refers to an individual’s right to be protected against interference with their privacy. The increasing adoption of AI in all disciplines threatens that right. Last month, privacy experts from around the world were joined by legal scholars, policy experts, and policy regulators at a Dagstuhl seminar to develop an evaluation framework for Privacy Enhancing Technologies that can be adopted worldwide. more

The third edition of the HARRIS workshop organized in Bochum brought together experts from all over the world more

Stories of People from Underrepresented Groups in Computer Science more

The third edition of the Creative.Minds workshop took place in Bochum this month
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