Gregory Chaitin-in-Ontario, The Search for the Perfect Language
Date | Monday September 21 2009 |
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Time | 14:00 - 16:00 |
Location | Perimeter Institute, Bob Room |
Contact | Ilias Kotsireas, ikotsire@wlu.ca |
URL | http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Scientific/Seminars/Colloquium/ |
Gregory Chaitin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, is the discoverer of the remarkable Omega number. His work on algorithmic information develops an idea in Leibniz’s “Discours de metaphysique” (1686), and has focused on randomness, on the limits of formal axiomatic reasoning, and, more recently, on metabiology. http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~chaitin. |