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The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute of the German Max Planck Society. Our mission is to undertake basic research into the psychological,social and biological foundations of language. The goal is to understand how our minds and brains process language, how language interacts with other aspects of mind, and how we can learn languages of quite different types.

The institute is situated on the campus of the Radboud University. We participate in the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, and have particularly close ties to that institute's Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. We also participate in the Centre for Language Studies. A joint graduate school, the IMPRS in Language Sciences, links the Donders Institute, the CLS and the MPI.

 

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Heinz-Billing-Award 2011 for Peter Wittenburg

The Heinz-Billing-Award 2011 is awarded to Peter Wittenburg. The prize is donated every two years by the Max Planck Society for the advancement of scientific computation. Wittenburg is head of MPI's Language Archive group.

Heinz-Billing-Award 2011 for Peter Wittenburg

March 18, 2011 
 
The Heinz-Billing-Award is donated biennially by the Heinz-Billing-Foundation of the Max Planck Society. The award, worth 5,000 euro, honours 'Outstanding Contributions to Computational Science'. The award is named after Professor Heinz Billing, emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and also former chairman of the Advisory Committee for computers at the Max Planck Society. With the invention of the drum storage and the construction of the computers G1, G2, G3, Professor Billing was one of the pioneers of electronic data processing at the beginning of scientific computation.

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'We already knew that there would not be a better candidate for this prize than Peter Wittenburg', says Managing Director Peter Hagoort. 'But of course, we are glad and proud that the Max Planck Society at large is of the same opinion.'
 
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