My musings

Every year on April 1, Google enthusiastic audiences get many hilarious news. However, none of them can be compared to the prank with the news from April 1, 2004 the launch of the e-mail service Gmail capacity, one gigabyte, because that is really the news was true. Google jokes on April... [Read More]

Been busy since last almost 2 months, attended two National conferences as participant which was extremely exciting as I made new friends along with new contacts and of course learned a new thing or 2. This followed the unfortunate problem with uncertainty of examination (the teaching staff is boycotting the exams). Anyways now I... [Read More]

Excellent lecture on the true beauty in Mathematics. Worth listing to atleast once. Beauty in Mathematics Enrico Bombieri Professor Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study Often mathematicians refer to a "beautiful" result or a "beautiful" proof. In this special lecture, Enrico Bombieri, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, addresses the question,... [Read More]

Password Hashing Competition :  The Password Hashing Competition (PHC) is an effort organized to identify new password hashing schemes in order to improve on the state-of-the-art (PBKDF2, scrypt, etc.), and to encourage the use of strong password protection. Applications include for example authentication to web services, PIN authentication on mobile devices,... [Read More]

26-28 September 2013 – University of Illinois at Chicago Invited Speaker : Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge), Bianca Dittrich (Perimeter Institute), Nick Huggett (UIC), Christian Wüthrich (UCSD), + others to be announced. Dear colleague (apologies for mass mailing), Chris Wüthrich and I are organizing a seminar on the foundations of quantum gravity, which will take place at... [Read More]