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Can You Tell Cats Apart from Guacamole?

AI researchers care a lot about discerning the two. Read more

02. Nov 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment

Kann ChatGPT sich in die Gedanken anderer einfühlen?

In den alten Zeiten, als von den elektrostatischen Kopierern noch nicht die Rede war und von Laserdruckern schon gar nicht, wurden Dokumente in kleiner Auflage – Arbeitsblätter in der Schule, Aufgabenzettel für die Anfängervorlesung und …

18. Oct 2023 | By Christoph Pöppe | 69 comments

Posters of Progress: All Eyes on the Young Researchers Taking the Stage

While the laureates are the main attraction of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), the young researchers are the heart and soul of the event. It is only fitting that during the first day of this year’s 10th HLF, young researchers took to the stage to present some of their own work. Read more

04. Oct 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 4 comments

The Man Who Wired the World: Robert Metcalfe and Connectivity

The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum kicked off with a captivating lecture by Robert Metcalfe, the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient and the inventor of Ethernet. In his engaging style, Metcalfe took the audience on a journey through the past, present, and future of connectivity. Read more

28. Sep 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 7 comments

HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF

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

19. Sep 2023 | By Engela Duvenage | 0 comments

Giving Back to the Community

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

10. May 2023 | By Nikolas Mariani | 0 comments

From Networks to the Turing Award: How Robert Metcalfe Changed the Internet and the World

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

19. Apr 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments

The Pandora’s Box of Generative Text AI

With all the craze surrounding text-generating AIs, we are all drawn to the potential that has suddenly opened up in front of us. But what dangers loom behind the sparkling promise? (This article was written …

15. Mar 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 28 comments

A Change You Can Hear: AI Now Mimics Voices

Technology is a tool, and it’s up to us to decide how we want to use it. Read more

15. Feb 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments

Ubiquitous Computing – Shwetak Patel

When Shwetak Patel was a student, he wanted to build something that would impact a million people – a lofty goal, but one that is hard to reach for a computer scientist at the start …

04. Jan 2023 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment

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