Deep connections As part of Monday’s session of Interviews with Recent Laureates, maths writer Alex Bellos interviewed this year’s Abel Prize winners, Hillel Furstenburg and Gregory Margulis. The conversation covered many aspects of their work and the … 24. Sep 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 4 comments
Digital health is already an important Hot Topic, but it’s still a work in progress When Shwetak Patel proposed ‘Digital Health’ as a Hot Topic for the HLF, he had no idea a pandemic was coming. None of us did. But Patel rightly predicted that the importance of digital health … 24. Sep 2020 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments
What Role Can Computing Play in Battling the COVID-19 Pandemic? How can computing technology impact global health, particularly with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic? 2018 ACM Prize in Computing winner Shwetak Patel addressed this question on the second day of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum … 23. Sep 2020 | By Khari Douglas | 0 comments
Computer graphics researchers are finally getting the recognition they deserves — and it’s a good lesson for young researchers Pat Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull have often felt like underdogs in the computer science academic world. In a time when some of the greatest minds were creating AIs and cryptographic algorithms, the two spent their … 23. Sep 2020 | By Andrei Mihai | 0 comments
Architecture Innovation Accelerates Artificial Intelligence As part of the first day of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) David A. Patterson, who won the 2017 ACM A.M Turing Award “for pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation … 23. Sep 2020 | By Khari Douglas | 1 comment
Mathematical Laureates and Public Engagement The first session of this year’s HLF, following the opening ceremony, was a series of interviews with laureates, conducted by representatives of the organisations that awarded the prizes. This included an illuminating chat between Carlos … 22. Sep 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 0 comments
How an algorithm became superhuman at Go — but not StarCraft — and then moved on to modeling proteins In a talk at the #vHLF20, DeepMind’s David Silver (recipient of the 2019 ACM Prize in Computing) showcased how AIs have become so powerful at playing games — and how this could be used to … 22. Sep 2020 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment
Have fun! Life and Career Advice from Sir C. Antony R. Hoare and Leslie Lamport The Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2020 kicked off today (September 21st) via livestream. As part of the day’s program, Sir C. Antony R. Hoare and Leslie Lamport, both winners of the ACM A.M. Turing … 22. Sep 2020 | By Khari Douglas | 0 comments
How HLF changed my life: Amy Zhang The COVID-19 pandemic forces us all to pause, reflect, and adapt. While the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum has been postponed to September 2021, this year’s Virtual HLF will take place from Monday, September 21 until … 18. Sep 2020 | By Jens-Steffen Scherer | 0 comments
Warum ist die Welt so unchaotisch? Im letzten Blogpost habe ich erzählt, wie die Chaostheorie dem Laplace’schen Dämon einige wesentliche Zähne zieht: Das kann schon sein, dass das Schicksal der Welt und das jedes einzelnen Atoms für alle Zukunft vorherbestimmt ist; … 17. Sep 2020 | By Christoph Pöppe | 55 comments