A Weaver of Virtual Worlds – Rachel Masters
Hiking and fishing in the Rocky Mountains were part and parcel of 10th HLF attendee Rachel Masters’ childhood. Nowadays, she taps into these experiences while developing the best possible immersive and therapeutic nature-based virtual reality (VR) experiences – forest landscape escapes through which people can take quick mental breaks. Read more
This Spotlight shines on the deeply passionate computer scientist and alumna of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), Aderonke Busayo Sakpere from Nigeria.
We sat down with her to talk about two of her ongoing projects: “Kọ́Èdè”, an app to help early childhood learning of her native Yoruba language, as well as the Tech Girls Club, a mentorship program for young women in STEM that she founded in 2019. Read more
The 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award was awarded to Robert “Bob” Metcalfe. Often regarded as the highest prize in computing, the Turing Award is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” Metcalfe was awarded the prize for the “invention, standardization, and commercialization” of one of the earliest, most impactful, and most extensively utilized networking technologies – Ethernet. Read more
