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...also pulled the rug out from under a generation of science-fiction fans, declaring dead a favorite plot device. "There is no possibility of using black holes to travel to other universes," he said, with evident regret. And, finally, he conceded defeat in a long-standing bet with Caltech astrophysicist John Preskill, who thought there wasn't a problem in the first place...
With a classmate, Adam D’Angelo (now a student at CalTech and still a close friend) Zuckerberg designed a program that learned a listener’s musical tastes, and then designed a playlist to match...
...size of the engineering faculty has grown from about 50 to 65 full-time equivalent (FTE) faculty under Venky. While DEAS is still dwarfed by competitors, an even more ambitious plan for expansion to the 90 faculty sported by Caltech or the 120 sported by Princeton has begun to gather momentum and institutional support...
...theory that would merge relativity and quantum physics into one tidy mathematical package. But where Einstein failed, physicists may finally be on the verge of success, largely thanks to Edward Witten, generally considered the greatest theoretical physicist in the world. "Ed is unique," says John Schwarz, a theorist at Caltech, "the kind of person who comes along once a century...
Citing a recent study by the Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project, May and Rebecca O’Brien, a second-year law student and the group’s other founder, said that headline-grabbing disputes over recounts in the 2000 election paled in comparison to the problem of widespread disenfranchisement...