A Chinese supercomputer appears to have taken the #1 spot on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Although the final rankings of the twice-yearly published list is not yet final, Jack Dongarra, a University of Tennessee computer scientist who co-manages the Top500 list, says that “it is unlikely we will see a . . . → Read More: Chinese supercomputer is world’s #1 system
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The present bloggers have written some new papers and presentations on pi that are targeted to a wide audience. These files are freely available for download: David H. Bailey, “A short history of pi formulas,” manuscript, Oct 2010, available at PDF. Jonathan Borwein, “The Life of Pi,” manuscript, Sep 2010, available at PDF. Jonathan Borwein, . . . → Read More: New papers on pi Retired Brown University mathematics professor David Mumford is among 10 scientists to receive the 2010 National Medal of Science, which is granted each year by the U.S. National Science Foundation. He will receive the award later this year in a ceremony at the White House in Washington. Mumford joins a list renowned scholars that includes . . . → Read More: David Mumford receives National Medal of Science Benoit B. Mandelbrot, a pioneer in the field of fractals, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 85. Mandelbrot coined the term “fractal” for figures that exhibit self-similar irregularities across a wide range of spatial dimensions. The field has numerous applications in physics, biology, and even mathematical finance. Many of these applications . . . → Read More: Benoit Mandelbrot dies At the dawn of the computer age in the 1950s and 1960s, researchers in the emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI) confidently predicted a new wave of discoveries that would revolutionize technology and society. For example, Herbert Simon predicted that “machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do,” . . . → Read More: Can machines teach themselves? |
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