Posts in Category ‘English’
HLFF Spotlight – Alumni in Action
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
Maths That Rings a Bell
If you have spent any time in the English countryside, you may have heard the sounds of bellringers merrily chiming from a nearby church tower – a peculiarly British pursuit in which, given a set of bells tuned to different notes and sufficiently skilled bellringers, a variety of tunes can be performed. But is there a mathematical aspect to bellringing too? Read more
Caffarelli und die freien Ränder
Der argentinische Mathematiker Luis Caffarelli (Jahrgang 1948), der heute an der University of Texas in Austin arbeitet, erhält in diesem Jahr den Abelpreis „für seine wegweisenden Beiträge zur Regularitätstheorie partieller Differenzialgleichungen, insbesondere freie Randwertprobleme und die Monge-Ampère-Gleichung“. Read more
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
HLFF Spotlight – Alumni in Action
This week, our spotlight shines on mathematician, computer scientist and alumnus of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Edin Liđan. In our interview, we talk about his love for mathematics and his AlumNode funded project “Making Early Mathematics Learning Available and Fun.” Read more