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IWOCA and StringMasters 2010

The last week of August I was in London for two workshops. The first workshop was the “small conference” type of workshop – the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA). The second was the “break-away groups and problem-solving” type of … Continue reading

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Jannasch Hall disappoints

Our division head, Willem Visser, and our department head, Ingrid Rewitzky, gave their professoral inaugural lectures on Tuesday. This is generally quite a fancy do, with a lot of big-wigs attending, although the lectures are typically aimed for the laymen, … Continue reading

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Researching Computer Go

So, much to my surprise, the National Research Foundation has agreed to fund my proposed research project into Computer Go. So now I have vacancies for Masters and PhD students, with a little bit of money to help potential students … Continue reading

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