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Fields Medals awarded

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hemos-medal-still-in-the-offing dept.

prostoalex writes "Every four years the Fields Medals are awarded to top mathematicians for outstanding research. This year's winners, as this San Francisco Chronicle article reports are Vladimir Voevodsky from Institute for Advanced Study and Laurent Lafforgue from Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques. 'True to form, Lafforgue and Voevodsky's mathematical research has no known practical applications', notes SF Chronicle."

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  1. Forget the maths, same article speaks of CS prize by Lorens · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Excerpt:

    The Nevanlinna Prize for computer science research goes to Madhu Sudan of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass. [...] Sudan's work in developing "error-correcting (computer) codes" could play "an enormous role in securing the reliability and quality of all kinds of information transmission, from music recorded on CDs . . . to satellite transmissions."

    New CRC? Do we need it?

  2. Re:Forget the maths, same article speaks of CS pri by khuber · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    New CRC? Do we need it?

    Way to misrepresent his work, dumbass.

    CRCs are not error correcting codes. They are error detecting codes.

    Reed-Solomon codes are a common correcting code.

    -Kevin

  3. Re:Arrrgh by dollargonzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    now that is a BS answer: " It's kind of counter-intuitive until you've studied it for a while, to say the least."

    If a scientist cannot explain what he is doing to a child in a few words, then he is worthless. an extremist view, yes, i know.
    QED

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