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Xavier Leroy, researcher at Inria and professor at the Collège de France, has just been appointed to the French Academy of Sciences. This is just the latest achievement in the career of a remarkable scientist who, at the age of 54, is as committed as ever to the development of computer science. Let’s take a look back at an exemplary career.

MIT postdocs honor Professor Muriel Medard with their annual Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award.

April 1st, 11am-12:30pm April 1, 2021 12:30 PM Virtual Meeting Talk Abstract: For several decades, my collaborators, students, and I have worked on theory for distributed systems in order to understand their capabilities and limitations in a rigorous, mathematical way. This work has produced many different kinds of results, including: • Abstract models for problems that are solved by distributed systems, and for the algorithms used to solve them • Rigorous proofs of algo...