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l. He subsequently taught at many other universities, including Columbia, NYU, Boston University, the University of California, both at Irvine and Berkeley, before finally becoming a professor at George Mason University, then moving in 1995 to Princeton University, where he has taught poetry workshops

Following his work in BattleBots, he has taken steps into the field of human-robot interactions. "We build these robots and we take them down to Berkeley and study the interactions that people have with the robots," says Wright. "We built this newer one that has a rapid-fire pingpong cannon. It will

matica computation system, A New Kind of Science, and the Wolfram 'Alpha computational knowledge engine. Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford and Caltech, receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the age of zo. Wolfram's work on basic science led him to a series of fundamental discoveries about

ld let others expose the flaws. Still, even Freedman admits that his first reaction was disappointment: "Well, there goes the best problem around." Berkeley's John Stallings, who had helped prove the conjecture for universes with six or more dimensions, a more abstract, though easier, task, refused to de

er of cases, the mistakes aren't found quickly, and these have a way of becoming public, which is what happened to Rourke. By the time he arrived in Berkeley last November to discuss his proof at a week-long seminar that became the gentlemanly equivalent of an inquisition, his purported success had been

. Late last year, after Colin Rourke, an English mathematician, became the latest victim of what's known as the Poincare conjecture, Dave Gabai, of Caltech, explained the obsession. "For a mathematician," said Gabai, who has a reputation for cracking seemingly unsolvable problems, "proving the Poincare

theory—the suc- cessful framework that had so beautifully provided an understanding of the relativistic quantum behavior of electrons and photons. Berkeley physicist Geoffrey Chew led the development of a popu- lar, influential program to address this problem. Chew gave up the idea that any truly fundam

ound states of other particles. In this sense, there could be no reduction to primary fundamental objects. In this Zen-like picture, appropriate to Berkeley in the 196os, all particles were thought to be made up of other particles—the so-called bootstrap model, in which no elementary particles were prim

strength of the Z interaction. Still, questions remained, especially given the apparent disagree- ment with the Seattle/Oxford results. At a talk at Caltech on the subject, Richard Feynman, characteristically, homed in on a key outstanding ex- perimental question and asked whether the SLAC experimentalis

ly throughout the world at many universities, Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Cornell University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, UCLA, UCSD, Berkeley, University of Rome, University of Utrecht, University of Lund, Singularity University, etc., as well as at many prestigious conferences and venues,

Reluctant Young Readers by the American Library Association). He has lectured extensively throughout the world at many universities, Harvard, MIT, Caltech, Cornell University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, UCLA, UCSD, Berkeley, University of Rome, University of Utrecht, University of

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ren't even admitted as undergraduates at Ivy League institu- tions until the late 1960s. Almost thirty years after Wu arrived from China to study at Berkeley in 1936, she noted in a Newsweek article about her, "It is shameful that there are so few women in science.... In China there are many, many women

nvited Sudarshan and another student to join him. The two most renowned particle theorists in the world then, Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann, were at Caltech, and each had become obsessed with unraveling the form of the weak interaction. Feynman had missed out on the discovery of parity violation by not

hall. He subsequently taught at many other universities, including Columbia, NYU, Boston University, the University of California, both at Irvine and Berkeley, before finally becoming a professor at George Mason University, then moving in 1995 to Princeton University, where he has taught poetry workshops an

athematica computation system, A New Kind of Science, and the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine. Wolfram was educated at Eton, Oxford and Caltech, receiving his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the age of 20. Wolfram’s work on basic science led him toa series of fundamental discoveries about the

bits of machined metal left over from his BattleBots days strewn about the garage of his Oakland home. Wright was a former Robot Wars champion in the Berkeley-based robotics workshop, the Stupid Fun Club. One of Wright’s bots, designed with the help of Wright’s daughter Cassidy, “Kitty Puff Puff”, fought ag