The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest and most important organization of computer scientists, has elected three researchers from the two Max Planck Institutes in Saarbrücken to Fellow status, the most prominent level of membership. In doing so, the ACM honors their fundamental contributions to modern computer science, with whose insights our current technology has been shaped.
Chosen for his "proven achievements in the areas of distributed information systems, performance optimization of database systems, information extraction and knowledge processing."
