A Connection Machine CM-2 exposed in the entrance area of #ZKM in Karlsruhe. I programmed on such a machine at #EPCC in Edinburgh in 1991. Fairly easy concepts based on data parallelism. Great memories.

Term converges today for my #HDA students with a colloquium on their essay topics, ranging from DB, indexing techniques, ML, graphics to post-quantum-cryptography.

Congratulations to Gerd Faltings, for being named the recipient of the 2026 Abel Prize. We would be honored to welcome you at the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum this year! Learn more about Faltings in an interview with Tom Crawford at the 11th HLF. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVUL...

Mathematician Gerd Faltings showed that arithmetic equations have a finite number of solutions, winning one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics go.nature.com/4duZO8c

Congratulations to Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard on receiving the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award! They are recognized for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing. awards.acm.org/turing @umontreal

Want to be part of the HLF team behind the scenes? ✨ Student assistants (m/f/d) wanted for the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September! Full (german) job description and application details: 👉 hlff-jobs.softgarden.io/job/63391659... #Heidelberg #Mathematics #ComputerScience #HLF26

Welche Hochschule passt zu mir? - https://www.welche-hochschule-ka.de/ #dhbwkarlsruhe #kit #hka #dhbw

Eine Connection Machine – ein ehemaliger Supercomputer – fristet in unserem Informatik-Hauptgebäude ein Dornröschen-Dasein. Zwar kann sie nicht mehr wachgeküsst werden, aber sie wird bald einem größeren Publikum präsentiert: zkm.de/de/2026/03/c... #KITInformatik #ConnectionMachine #ZKMKarlsruhe #ZKM

Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions

The first "BW hike" of 2026 led us to #Dannenfels where we passed by the #Adlerbogen 🦅 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moltkebogen

Canada sees its first European robin – but how did it get there? - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/10/european-robin-canada-birdwatchers-montreal-rare-sighting-bird-aoe

Today, my #H_DA students and I have met at the headquarters of #DFS (Deutsche Flugsicherung) in Langen, near #Frankfurt Airport. Final round of project status presentations.

Gold price tops $5,000 an ounce for first time as investors seek safe haven from Trump turmoil

#Banksy murals in Ukraine 🇺🇦 #houseofbanksy

The white storks have reappeared already despite freezing temperatures 🥶

Mehr Infos zum Event: sciencenotes.de/veranstaltun...

Great speech. Here is the English part. Excellent. www.youtube.com/live/UF1eumA...

Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil drummer and founding member, dies aged 70

In der letzten Nacht lag die Rheinebene unter eine Wolkendecke - der Heidelberger Königstuhl dagegen bot die perfekte Bühne für eines der stärksten Polarlichter aller Zeiten in Deutschland... 1/2 🔭

Hours before Trump is due to meet María Corina Machado, the Nobel Peace Center restates: "A medal can change owners, but the title of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate cannot."

This breaks my heart because he was a genius … before he wasn’t. Scott Adams, Creator of the Satirical ‘Dilbert’ Comic Strip, Dies at 68 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/a...

🔚 FULLTIME 🔵 Hoffenheim 5-1 Borussia Mönchengladbach 🟢 #Bundesliga #TSGBMG #MD17

Interview (in English) with A. #Kurmanaev ( #NYT correspondent in Caracas) in Germany's #DLF radio on the current situation in Venezuela. 18 mins. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-mit-anatoly-kurmanaev-new-york-times-in-caracas-zu-venezuela-100.html

Habeck Interview im #DLF zu Grönland. Sachlich, informiert, frei von ideologischem Gedöns. Ca. 13 min. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/zu-us-aussenpolitik-groenland-ukraine-interview-robert-habeck-ex-gruenen-chef-100.html

Happy New Year! As of January 1, 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library are now open access, making computing research more accessible, discoverable, and reusable worldwide. Explore ACM’s open access journey: 👉 www.acm.org/publications... #OpenAccess #ACM

J.K. Rowling: Harvard Commencement Speech 2008 (20 min). Have just listened to it. Excellent. Wise words, especially these days. https://youtu.be/_iBvQrAC2Vs

In 2024, I was a co-author on "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives", covering areas we thought AI would have significant impact on the world. A shortened version appears as the cover article in this month's CACM: cacm.acm.org/research/sha... arxiv.org/abs/2412.02730 See: shapingai.com

Article reflecting well - IMHO - the relief and the fears of what happened. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/03/its-impossible-not-to-feel-relief-uk-venezuelans-on-maduros-capture

Screenshot of #BBC News of a Trump post. My Venezuelean friends and family … and myself can hardly believe it.

George Clooney Hits Back After Trump Slams Him on Social Media: ‘We Have to Make America Great Again. We’ll Start in November’ variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Heavy rain falls in the south of France. Pont du Gard … x.com/pontdugard/s...

Merry Christmas from Walldorf!

We’ve pushed out the Pareto frontier of efficiency vs. intelligence again. With Gemini 3 Flash ⚡️, we are seeing reasoning capabilities previously reserved for our largest models. This opens up entirely new categories of near real-time applications that require complex thought. More in thread ⬇️

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

‘Follow the path of exiles’: María Corina Machado’s US-aided escape from Venezuela

This is my group of (vocational) students of #h_da #Darmstadt . They are working on projects in their respective host companies. We meet once per month to check on progress. Today’s meeting was thankfully hosted by Deutsche Telekom.

The Sky Angle building in Heidelberg's Bahnstadt.

Celebrating the 30 years @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de, our own 15th anniversary - and the 85th birthday of our founder, the late Klaus Tschira. We will carry on the spirit and the vision he endowed us for many years to come! Thanks to: @rebecca-wade.bsky.social

📣 Milestone alert — Yoshua Bengio has officially surpassed 1 million citations on Google Scholar. The 2018 A.M. Turing Award laureate is now the most cited computer scientist in the world and the only living scientist to surpass this threshold. 🎉 Congratulations! buff.ly/OZ48tRz

Final lecture of my DB course for this semester. #DHBW #Karlsruhe

Gestern in #Heidelberg: JETZT. WOHIN. Mit anschließender Q&A. Ausverkauft. Ich fands gut. #JetztWohin @larsjessens.bsky.social @robert-habeck.de

Do you like databases? Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them? Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases? If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...

The golden Christmas tree (in one of #SAP 's #WDF13 's coffee areas) hasn’t made its way to the dump yet so that Klaus and I could enjoy a coffee in a cosy atmosphere.

West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’

‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’ @lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Billy Connolly is 83 today, Happy Birthday Billy 🎁🎂

Today's Future Data Systems Seminar Speaker: Jeremy Taylor (@refset.bsky.social) will present the architecture of the XTDB (@xtdb.com) time-traveling database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/futur...

🚀 Young Researchers: Apply for the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum @hlforum.bsky.social ! Join 200 top minds in math and computer science to meet Turing Award and Fields Medal laureates in Heidelberg, Germany. When: Sept 13–18, 2026 Apply by Feb 11, 2026 Learn more here: buff.ly/MHdYBQI

Filmfestival Mathematik Informatik durch das #HLFF der @ktstiftung. 22-29 Nov 2025. Even though the page is in DE, there are many films in original language. https://www.heidelberg-mains.org/veranstaltungen/filmfestival/