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John Baez on Research Tactics

John Baez is a professor of mathematics at U.C. Riverside. Until recently he worked on higher category theory and quantum gravity. His internet column This Week’s Finds dates back to to 1993 and is sometimes called the world’s first blog....

André Platzer on Verifying Cyber-Physical Systems

André Platzer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He develops the logical foundations of cyber-physical systems to characterize their fundamental principles and to answer the question how we can trust a computer to control physical...

Gerwin Klein on Formal Methods

Gerwin Klein is a Senior Principal Researcher at NICTA, Australia’s National Centre of Excellence for ICT Research, and Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is leading NICTA’s Formal Methods research discipline and...

Conversation with Jacob Steinhardt about MIRI Strategy

On January 21st, 2014, MIRI met with Jacob Steinhardt to discuss MIRI strategy. Participants were: Luke Muehlhauser (executive director at MIRI) Jacob Steinhardt (grad student in computer science at Stanford) We recorded and transcribed much of the conversation, and then...

Ronald de Wolf on Quantum Computing

Ronald de Wolf is a senior researcher at CWI and a part-time full professor at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD there in 2001 with a thesis about quantum computing and communication complexity, advised by Harry Buhrman and...

Mike Frank on reversible computing

Michael P. Frank received his Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University in 1991, and his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in...