Not long ago, computers started solving mathematical proofs—a fact that surprised Sir Andrew Wiles. But to Wiles, who won the Silver Plaque of the IMU (1998) and the 2016 Abel Prize, the achievements of machines … Weiterlesen
Wolfgang Victor Yarlott, a Young Researcher at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, studies narrative through the lens of computer science. He completed his undergraduate studies at MIT and recently began a PhD program at Florida International … Weite…
Raj Reddy likes to imagine a world where consumers can buy any product from anywhere, and computers are always listening. He’s not describing a dystopia where consumerist computers take over the world. Instead, Reddy, an … Weiterlesen
It’s always nice to be right—but sometimes, says Professor Günter Ziegler, it’s more interesting to be wrong. “Math starts with a mistake,” says Ziegler, who researches discrete geometry at the Free University of Berlin, and … Weiterlesen