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What Do Food and Research Have in Common? More Than You Might Think
A common German saying is that “love goes through the stomach” – but perhaps the same could be said of research?
We asked twelve researchers: If you had to choose a meal to describe your research – which one would you choose and why? Weiterlesen
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Why People Hate Maths, and Why You Should Love It
“Oh, I hated maths at school.”
It is a phrase every mathematician has heard time and time again. Indeed, just in the past month, I have found myself explaining the joy and value in learning maths at parties, in schools, and even on national news. So why is enjoying mathematics so controversial? Weiterlesen
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Hunting the Snark
A while ago I wrote about zero-player games, including the famous Game of Life created by mathematician John Conway. If you are confused because you thought the Game of Life was a board game where you put a tiny peg character in a car and drive it around a board, here is a quick reminder of how the mathematical Game of Life works. Weiterlesen
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Die seltsamen Fehlleistungen neuronaler Netze
Die Großtat, für die Adi Shamir berühmt wurde, ist schon eine ganze Weile her. Im Jahr 1977 erfand er, gerade mal 25 Jahre alt, gemeinsam mit Ron Rivest und Leonard Adleman das asymmetrische Kryptosystem, das nach den Anfangsbuchstaben seiner Erfinder RSA-Chiffre heißt und bis heute, wenn auch mit Modifikationen, beim Verschlüsseln von Nachrichten eine – jawohl – Schlüsselrolle spielt. Weiterlesen
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The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Sketchnotes
Illustrator Constanza Rojas-Molina
summarizes the week of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, which once a year brings together bright young mathematicians and computer scientists with the most prominent scientists in the field, in sketch notes! Weiterlesen
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Kann ChatGPT sich in die Gedanken anderer einfühlen?
In den alten Zeiten, als von den elektrostatischen Kopierern noch nicht die Rede war und von Laserdruckern schon gar nicht, wurden Dokumente in kleiner Auflage – Arbeitsblätter in der Schule, Aufgabenzettel für die Anfängervorlesung und …
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Posters of Progress: All Eyes on the Young Researchers Taking the Stage
While the laureates are the main attraction of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), the young researchers are the heart and soul of the event. It is only fitting that during the first day of this year’s 10th HLF, young researchers took to the stage to present some of their own work. Weiterlesen
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The Man Who Wired the World: Robert Metcalfe and Connectivity
The 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum kicked off with a captivating lecture by Robert Metcalfe, the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient and the inventor of Ethernet. In his engaging style, Metcalfe took the audience on a journey through the past, present, and future of connectivity. Weiterlesen
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HLFF Spotlight: 10th HLF
A Weaver of Virtual Worlds – Rachel Masters
Hiking and fishing in the Rocky Mountains were part and parcel of 10th HLF attendee Rachel Masters’ childhood. Nowadays, she taps into these experiences while developing the best possible immersive and therapeutic nature-based virtual reality (VR) experiences – forest landscape escapes through which people can take quick mental breaks. Weiterlesen