Posts in Category ‘English’
Hunting the Snark
A while ago I wrote about zero-player games, including the famous Game of Life created by mathematician John Conway. If you are confused because you thought the Game of Life was a board game where you put a tiny peg character in a car and drive it around a board, here is a quick reminder of how the mathematical Game of Life works. Read more
Die seltsamen Fehlleistungen neuronaler Netze
Die Großtat, für die Adi Shamir berühmt wurde, ist schon eine ganze Weile her. Im Jahr 1977 erfand er, gerade mal 25 Jahre alt, gemeinsam mit Ron Rivest und Leonard Adleman das asymmetrische Kryptosystem, das nach den Anfangsbuchstaben seiner Erfinder RSA-Chiffre heißt und bis heute, wenn auch mit Modifikationen, beim Verschlüsseln von Nachrichten eine – jawohl – Schlüsselrolle spielt. Read more
The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Sketchnotes
Illustrator Constanza Rojas-Molina
summarizes the week of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, which once a year brings together bright young mathematicians and computer scientists with the most prominent scientists in the field, in sketch notes! Read more
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