Dharmendra S. Modha

My Work and Thoughts.

Archives for May 2007

My Mathematical Genealogy

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You can check out my academic father, grandfather, great grandfather, etc. here.

The genealogy traces my lineage back to famous mathematicians such as C. Felix Klein, Carl F. Gauss, Rudolf Lipschitz, Martin Ohm, Gustav Dirichlet, Simeon Poisson, Joseph Lagrange, Leonhard Euler, Bernoulli Brothers, and, eventually, to Gottfried Leibniz.

I was so delighted to discover this connection.

Press Coverage: Decade of the Mind

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I spoke at the extremely successful and enjoyable Decade of the Mind Symposium.  The event has gotten some nice media attention:

Brain research poised to dramatically advance global society
First Science
http://www.firstscience.com/home/news/chemistry-physics-and-materials-sciences/brain-research-poised-to-dramatically-advance-global-society_28802.html

Brain research poised to dramatically advance global society
Medical News Today
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=71750

Mason Prepares for Involvement in ‘Decade of the Mind’
The Mason Gazette
http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/10199/

Celebrating 10th Anniversary of Game 6 between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov

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"Ten years ago today, IBM’s Deep Blue (NYSE: IBM) became the first computer to win a chess tournament against a reigning world champion chess master.

Deep Blue had 32 processors and could process about 200 million chess moves per second in its historic six-game match against Garry Kasparov."

References:

http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Deep_Blue
http://www.sys-con.com/read/374500.htm
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/05/murraycampbell_qa