Brave New Data World Scientists and Society face the ethical challenges of computational science together Thoughts are free, who can guess them, they flee past like nightime shadows. No one can know them, no hunter can kill them It … 27. Oct 2016 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
The 3rd HLF – Through the Looking Glass Wylder Green, HLFF press team member: Atmosphere defines interaction, and the 3rd Heidelberg Laureate Forum did not allow that truth to evade it. The cornerstone of the HLF is creating an informal environment for scientific … 16. Sep 2015 | By Guest blogger | 0 comments
Fred Brooks on Software Engineers and Teams It has been over a week since the end of HLF, and I’ve been settling back into my life as a software developer at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada. I often find myself thinking back to … 10. Sep 2015 | By Gail Carmichael | 1 comment
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
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
The Poly-Participant – How to be invited to Heidelberg again The HLF is in its third year, and already there is one young researcher who managed to attend the forum twice. After successfully making the next step in his scientific career, Felix Günther took the chance … 29. Aug 2015 | By Beatrice Lugger | 0 comments
Peter Naur und das Jennifer-Aniston-Neuron Peter Naur hat eine beeindruckende Biographie. Als Programmiersprachen-Pionier war er an entscheidender Stelle dabei, als es um den Übergang vom direkten Programmieren mithilfe elementarer Recheninstruktionen (“nahe an den Elektronen”) zu abstrakteren, höheren Sprachen ging – … 28. Aug 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 10 comments
Selbstbewusst bis zur Bescheidenheit Gabriel Laub wird gemeinhin das nachfolgende Zitat über das Verhältnis zwischen Selbstbewusstsein und Bescheidenheit zugeschrieben: Bescheiden können nur die Menschen sein, die genug Selbstbewusstsein haben. So oder ähnlich lässt sich ebenfalls eine der Haupteinsichten umschreiben, … 28. Aug 2015 | By Tarek R. Besold | 0 comments
