Casual Attire and Formal Proof Informality is the watchword here at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum. Even the most distinguished participants go by Bob or Fred or Len rather than Herr Professor Doktor. In this casual social atmosphere, however, formality of … 03. Sep 2015 | By Brian Hayes | 0 comments
Verschlüsselte Hintertürchen und der Tag, an dem im Internet das Licht aus ging Heutige und zukünftige ethische und technologische Herausforderungen rund um das Thema Big Data standen beim diesjährigen Hot Topic “Brave New Data World” des Heidelberg Laureate Forums auf dem Dienstagnachmittagsprogramm. Einer der thematischen Workshops beschäftigte sich vor diesem … 02. Sep 2015 | By Tarek R. Besold | 1 comment
Query and Curiosity – Scientific Data Exploration Thursday, August 27, during the poster session at HLF15 I strolled around. As I am not a computer scientist or mathematician I honestly had problems in getting an idea, what most of these posters where … 02. Sep 2015 | By Beatrice Lugger | 1 comment
Stepping Off the “Innovation” Bandwagon Rosalind Reid, guest blogger at HLF15: I believe I’ve heard the word “innovation” spoken only once during the 2015 Heidelberg Laureate Forum. For an event that gathers together the inventors of today’s computing and the … 01. Sep 2015 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
Women in Computer Science 2/2: Changing the culture This is the story of how the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University went from few female students before 1995, many of which later transferred out of the course, to 40% female … 01. Sep 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
Remembering Passwords like a Pro – Interview with Jeremiah Blocki Andrew Carmichael, guest blogger at HLF15: Jeremiah Blocki is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Jeremiah completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University focusing on Usable and Secure Human … 31. Aug 2015 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
Frauen in der Informatik 2/2: Kulturwechsel Dies ist die Geschichte, wie die School of Computer Science (SCS) der Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, USA, von einem Informatikstudiengang mit geringem Frauenanteil bis 1995 – und zudem einer hohen Rate an Frauen, … 31. Aug 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
Sir Antony Hoare — Theory and Practice As with my interview with John Hopcroft, I was most interested in what Sir Antony Hoare had to say about computer science education. He was, after all, knighted for his work in education in addition … 31. Aug 2015 | By Gail Carmichael | 2 comments
Peter Naur and the Jennifer Aniston Neuron Peter Naur has an impressive biography. He was a pioneer of programming languages, at a time when the idea of higher-level abstractions from the deepest-level (“close to the electrons”) instructions was new, unusual, and anything … 30. Aug 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
Frauen in der Informatik 1/2: Jenseits des bloßen Programmierens Vor 1995 hatte der Fachbereich Informatik der Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, trotz einem der prestigeträchtigsten Informatik-Studiengänge der USA, recht traurige Zahlen, was die Zulassung und die Studienabschlüsse von Studentinnen betraf: eine einstellige Prozentzahl bei … 29. Aug 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 7 comments