Andrew Carmichael, guest blogger at HLF15: Jeremiah Blocki is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Jeremiah completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University focusing on Usable and Secure Human … Read more
Dies ist die Geschichte, wie die School of Computer Science (SCS) der Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, USA, von einem Informatikstudiengang mit geringem Frauenanteil bis 1995 – und zudem einer hohen Rate an Frauen, … Read more
As with my interview with John Hopcroft, I was most interested in what Sir Antony Hoare had to say about computer science education. He was, after all, knighted for his work in education in addition … Read more
Peter Naur has an impressive biography. He was a pioneer of programming languages, at a time when the idea of higher-level abstractions from the deepest-level (“close to the electrons”) instructions was new, unusual, and anything … Read more
Vor 1995 hatte der Fachbereich Informatik der Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, trotz einem der prestigeträchtigsten Informatik-Studiengänge der USA, recht traurige Zahlen, was die Zulassung und die Studienabschlüsse von Studentinnen betraf: eine einstellige Prozentzahl bei … Read more
The HLF is in its third year, and already there is one young researcher who managed to attend the forum twice. After successfully making the next step in his scientific career, Felix Günther took the chance … Read more
Peter Naur hat eine beeindruckende Biographie. Als Programmiersprachen-Pionier war er an entscheidender Stelle dabei, als es um den Übergang vom direkten Programmieren mithilfe elementarer Recheninstruktionen (“nahe an den Elektronen”) zu abstrakteren, höheren Sprachen ging – … Read more
What transforms a sophisticated scientific talk to an inspiring presentation suitable for an audience with diverse backgrounds and broad interests, like here at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum? In my opinion, and after having seen most … Read more
Gabriel Laub wird gemeinhin das nachfolgende Zitat über das Verhältnis zwischen Selbstbewusstsein und Bescheidenheit zugeschrieben: Bescheiden können nur die Menschen sein, die genug Selbstbewusstsein haben. So oder ähnlich lässt sich ebenfalls eine der Haupteinsichten umschreiben, … Read more
We tend to think of algorithms and computation as human inventions, but organisms as primitive as bacteria have relied on algorithmic mechanisms throughout the history of life. The regulation of genes inside a single cell, … Read more