The 3rd HLF – Through the Looking Glass Wylder Green, HLFF press team member: Atmosphere defines interaction, and the 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum did not allow that truth to evade it. The cornerstone of the HLF is creating an informal environment for scientific … 16. Sep 2015 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
Fred Brooks on Software Engineers and Teams It has been over a week since the end of HLF, and I’ve been settling back into my life as a software developer at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada. I often find myself thinking back to … 10. Sep 2015 | By Gail Carmichael | 1 comment
Casual Attire and Formal Proof Informality is the watchword here at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Even the most distinguished participants go by Bob or Fred or Len rather than Herr Professor Doktor. In this casual social atmosphere, however, formality of … 03. Sep 2015 | By Brian Hayes | 0 comments
Verschlüsselte Hintertürchen und der Tag, an dem im Internet das Licht aus ging Heutige und zukünftige ethische und technologische Herausforderungen rund um das Thema Big Data standen beim diesjährigen Hot Topic “Brave New Data World” des Heidelberg Laureate Forums auf dem Dienstagnachmittagsprogramm. Einer der thematischen Workshops beschäftigte sich vor diesem … 02. Sep 2015 | By Tarek R. Besold | 1 comment
Query and Curiosity – Scientific Data Exploration Thursday, August 27, during the poster session at HLF15 I strolled around. As I am not a computer scientist or mathematician I honestly had problems in getting an idea, what most of these posters where … 02. Sep 2015 | By Beatrice Lugger | 1 comment
Stepping Off the “Innovation” Bandwagon Rosalind Reid, guest blogger at HLF15: I believe I’ve heard the word “innovation” spoken only once during the 2015 Heidelberg Laureate Forum. For an event that gathers together the inventors of today’s computing and the … 01. Sep 2015 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
Women in Computer Science 2/2: Changing the culture This is the story of how the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University went from few female students before 1995, many of which later transferred out of the course, to 40% female … 01. Sep 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
