The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) recently announced the start of the application period to attend the 8th annual HLF, which will take place September 20–25, 2020 in Heidelberg, Germany. Organized by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation and Klaus Tschira Stiftung, HLF brings together laureates in compute science and mathematics with young researchers in the fields in “a one-week event combining scientific, social and outreach activities. The recipients of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science, the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize are invited to participate in the Forum. They will give lectures on subjects of their choosing which […]

The 7th Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HoTSoS) Symposium recently released a call for papers. This year’s HoTSoS Symposium will be held April 7-8, 2020 at the Burge Union on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas. “HoTSoS is a research event centered on the Science of Security, which aims to address the fundamental problems of security in a principled manner.” The call also asks for poster and tutorial submissions. The full call can be found below and learn more on the HoTSoS website. Overview Submissions are solicited for the 7th Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HoTSoS) Symposium, which will be held April 7-8, […]

Yesterday morning at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) laureates Yoshua Bengio (2018 Turing Award), Edvard Moser (2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine), and Leslie G. Valiant (1986 Nevanlinna Prize and 2010 Turing Award) each presented a lecture related to artificial intelligence or the modeling of the brain. Yoshua Bengio’s lecture on “Deep Learning for AI” provided a retrospective of some of the key principles behind the recent successes of deep learning. Dr. Bengio’s work has mostly been in neural networks, which are inspired by the computation found in the human brain. One of the key insights in the field came with the representation of words as vectors of numbers. This allowed relationships between words to be learned […]

The 7th annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) has officially begun! Yesterday (September 21st) was the opening ceremony, which included a “science slam” on the history and founding of HLF from Andreas Reuter, Scientific Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation, as well as a Q&A session with Cherri M. Pancake, President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Carlos E. Kenig, President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), and Hans Petter Graver, President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA). To top it off the opening ceremony was followed by a reception, giving the young researchers opportunities to mingle with each other and the 23 laureates in mathematics and computer science that are in attendance. During the Q&A session, Cherri Pancake was asked about the […]

Drs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers in order to participate in the upcoming 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing co-located with the 10th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC 2019) taking place October 21-24, 2019, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. “IGSC 2019 provides a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference consists of technical papers, panels, workshops, PhD Forum, and special sessions on these topics.“ The submission deadline is July 31st and the full call can be found below: CALL […]