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HLFF Spotlight: 9th HLF

Inspiring Women in STEM – Celia Rubio Madrigal The Heidelberg Laureate Forum has a single purpose: To provide some of the brightest minds in mathematics and computer science with the space and time to make …

25. Aug 2022 | By Lena Sophie Schwenker | 5 comments

What does the future of math and computing hold?

On the final day of the 2021 Heidelberg Laureate Forum a panel of laureates convened to discuss “Advances in Computer Science, Mathematics and Computing.” The panel included Vint Cerf (2004 Turing Award), Yoshua Bengio (2018 …

24. Sep 2021 | By Khari Douglas | 3 comments

“Whether you’re a young or an old researcher – keep learning and enjoy it!”

Those were the memorable words with which Alfred Vaino Aho ended his #HLF21 dialogue with Jeffrey David Ullman. The two 2020 ACM A.M. Turing Award laureates sat down for an informal talk, which was initiated …

22. Sep 2021 | By Andrei Mihai | 1 comment

How the Internet of Things could help us feed the world sustainably

According to UN projections, the world could have 10 billion people by 2050, and feeding everyone will not be an easy task. At the same time, environmental problems like water scarcity or soil erosion put …

24. Feb 2021 | By Andrei Mihai | 13 comments

Computers and Proof

In the final session of the Virtual HLF, as part of a discussion on the topic ‘Where can computer science and mathematics interact fruitfully?’, the conversation turned to the question of proof. In the words …

06. Oct 2020 | By Katie Steckles | 2 comments

Applying Mathematics and Computer Science to Everyday Life – Anecdotes from Donald Knuth and Robert Tarjan

On day two of the Virtual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2020, Robert Endre Tarjan and Donald Ervin Knuth engaged in a freewheeling conversation about mathematics, computer science, and art. Donald Knuth was the 1974 ACM …

25. 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

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