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Even more daunting than the sheer size of the program is the requirement that it run flawlessly the first time out, a phenomenon unprecedented in the short history of computers. Says M.I.T. Physicist Herbert Lin, who last month published a critique of the Star Wars software problem: "No program works right the first time." A computer system as complex as Star Wars' can be expected to contain tens of thousands of errors. Some of these could be eliminated by testing component parts one at a time. But when these components are finally put together, new bugs inevitably turn...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the 50th anniversary of his death. Both events are being commemorated by a bid to spark fresh interest in the Nobel-prizewinning physicist, who was named TIME's Person of the Century in December 1999. "Einstein was not only a brilliant physicist, but also a lateral thinker, pacifist, cosmopolite and visionary," says Gerd Weiberg, head of Germany's Einstein Year celebrations. Here are some highlights of Einstein-related happenings around Europe...
Mickelson's passions are diverse: family, flying and the unified theory of the universe. He's a fan of physicist Stephen Hawking. "I find it very fascinating[the concept of] traveling at the speed of light and how the aging process ceases and how the planet has been extinct 20 different times," he says. "It's just a much bigger picture than the here and now." One of Mickelson's closest friends on the tour, Davis Love III, chuckles at his pal's cosmic ruminations. "Basically, I'm like, 'What the hell?'" he says. "Obviously, he's a very smart...
...year-old Georgi, a bearded, august professor, might seem like an unlikely feminist. But if anyone has the heft to make change, he does. The physicist learned his scientific ABCs at the College from Nobel Prize-winner Julian Schwinger, won renown in the lab, and eventually assumed the chairmanship of Harvard’s physics department...
...system. At the graduate level, he made the admissions review more holistic, emphasizing recommendations and grades and downplaying GREs, where women tend to get lower scores than their male counterparts. “There are lots of ways in which we have too narrow a view of what a physicist needs to look like,” Georgi says...