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How will scientific collaboration look like post-COVID? We can’t know for sure, but there’s no turning back
“Post-COVID is an interesting term,” says Vint Cerf who holds the unique title of Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. “We likely won’t eradicate this virus anytime soon. We might be looking at regular vaccine shots, …
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Raj Reddy und die technische Lösung des Lockdown-Problems
Dabbala Rajagopal “Raj” Reddy hat einen geradezu märchenhaften Aufstieg genommen. Geboren 1937 in einem kleinen Dorf im heutigen indischen Bundesstaat Andhra Pradesh, arbeitete er nach seinem Studium für einige Jahre bei IBM in Australien und …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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How HLF changed my life: Larissa Suzuki
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 Friday, September 25, 2020. …
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Laplace, die Karnickel und das Chaos
Das Schicksal des Universums ist vorherbestimmt („determiniert“), im Großen wie im Kleinen. Aus dem gegenwärtigen Zustand der Welt folgt nach Maßgabe der Naturgesetze zwangsläufig und ohne irgendwelche Freiheit jeder zukünftige Zustand derselben. Das ist die …