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Monthly Archives: September 2013

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I remember – A week gone – A life time spent

Bushra Anjum, HLF13 participant: As I sit now in my faculty office waiting for my class to begin in an hour (I am a faculty member in Lahore, Pakistan) I think about the many fond …

30. Sep 2013 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
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A trip down read-only memory lane with William Kahan

I’ve already written here about the weirdness of certain floating point operations – the case of the misbehaving Excel spreadsheet in particular – taking my cues, and my examples, from floating point pioneer William Kahan …

30. Sep 2013 | By Markus Pössel | 1 comment
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Balance – How to develop a research career and a growing family?

How to find a balance? How to deal with career and kids? Matthias Hagen from Weimar University, Germany, had the idea for this workshop: “Balance – How to develop a research career and a growing …

30. Sep 2013 | By Beatrice Lugger | 0 comments
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Zeitreise mit William Kahan

Über Merkwürdigkeiten bei der Berechnung von Fließkommazahlen hatte ich ja bereits hier geschrieben. Darauf gekommen war ich wegen der Artikel von William Kahan, selbst so etwas wie der Vater der Fließkommarechnung, von dem auch die …

30. Sep 2013 | By Markus Pössel | 2 comments
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Notes from Friday: I look at science as trying to figure out….

“I look at science as trying to figure out, what hair balls are.” Alan Kay Ivan Edward Sutherland’s first graphic system (Kay showed nice old movies) 50th Birthday of sketchpad. Work was done in 1962 …

29. Sep 2013 | By Beatrice Lugger | 0 comments
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Mathematical Foresight

Hitesh Gakhar, HLF13 participant: As both an undergraduate student and budding researcher, I am unsure as to how to express my immense gratitude towards being selected for HLF 2013. Even before the event had started, …

29. Sep 2013 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments

A problem with heights

The view from Heidelberg Castle is stunning, if you don’t have a problem with heights.   This evening the HLF had a final reception at the Heidelberg Castle. I talked with one of the young …

28. Sep 2013 | By John D. Cook | 0 comments
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The Talk That Wasn’t

Today I had the real privilege of hearing Manuel Blum‘s talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. It was about… “Wait a minute!” I hear you saying. “Manuel Blum didn’t give a talk at the forum!” …

27. Sep 2013 | By Dana Mackenzie | 1 comment
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A very busy man

During the boat trip yesterday, I chatted briefly with Cédric Villani. The conversation was brief because he was in great demand, having arrived just the day before and leaving that evening. “Two days!” he said. …

27. Sep 2013 | By Julie Rehmeyer | 0 comments
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Ratschläge für das richtige Runden

Donnerstag morgen endlich hielt William Morton Kahan seinen Vortrag, auf den ich schon sehr gespannt war. Der Titel “Desperately needed remedies for the undebuggability of large-scale floating-point computations in science and engineering”, der gut als …

27. Sep 2013 | By Benjamin Hiller | 4 comments
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