Dr. Claus Volko

Nachdem ich mich heute gefragt habe, was mich am Medizinstudium eigentlich interessiert hat, und meine Konklusion war, dass mich von allen Prüfungsfächern nur Medizinische Biochemie wirklich interessiert hat, wobei es auch einige daran angrenzende Fächer gegeben hat, die nicht ganz uninteressant waren, habe ich mir überlegt, wie ein Studium der Medizinischen Wissenschaft aussehen würde, das meinen Interessen entspräche. Das Ergebnis ist ein Bachelorstudium, das sechs Semester dauert. Es sollte Absolventen mit sehr guten Noten erlaubt sein, gleich danach ein PhD-Studium anzuschließen. 1. Semester Medizinische Physik Medizinische Chemie Medizinische Biologie 2. Semester Medizinische Biochemie Medizinische Physiologie 3. Semester Funktionelle Pathologie Mikrobiologie 4. Semester Pharmakologie und Toxikologie Artificial Intelligence in der Medizin 5. Semester Statistik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie Bioinformatik 6. Semester Wissenschaftstheorie Projektpraktikum mit Bachelorarbeit Seminar

It's interesting that Geoff Hinton initially did study physics (a fact I wasn't aware of until now) but dropped out after the first year because the math the students were required to do was too complicated for him. In fact machine learning also requires some knowledge of higher mathematics; but it's likely not that difficult. In any case, probably I'd be talented enough for a math course for physics students.

Actually I'm still not warm with machine learning. I prefer spending my time studying and developing algorithms. Perhaps I should try to conduct research in algorithms, like I did for my diploma thesis at the Vienna University of Technology. I've got an edition of the Algorithms book by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest from my student days, which I'll take a look at again. Maybe it will inspire me to do something meaningful. As a matter of fact algorithms, formal logics and theoretical computer science are the things "for which my heart beats", as a German proverb says. Perhaps it would really be better to focus on the things I love instead of forcing myself to be interested in things I actually am not amazed at. 

Ich habe eigentlich erst mit Beginn meines Medizinstudiums begonnen, mir viel Wissen anzueignen. Zuvor war ich eher kreativ tätig, indem ich viel schrieb, meine Zeitschrift gestaltete und von Zeit zu Zeit auch programmierte. Zu Beginn meines Medizinstudiums wusste ich noch gar nicht, wie ich mir solch große Stoffmengen merken sollte, wie bei den Prüfungen verlangt wurde. Das habe ich erst im Verlauf des Studiums gelernt.

This website contains my major project that kept me occupied for 18 years: https://hugi.scene.org/ Even after I stopped making the magazine in 2014, I kept contributing demos and intros to the community. I also visited related websites every day and sometimes made postings to the forums. This has ended now. For some weeks I haven't been following the computer art community any more, and I've tried to spend my time learning about other things. A new chapter will start in my life. We will see whether I'll focus on professional software engineering for 100% or whether I'll return to academia and do some scientific work (which will also involve programming). In any case, what has fascinated me about demos was the technical challenge to create animations with music in just 64k or even 4k of code. I participated in a size optimizing contest myself and won first place, whereupon I organized thirty contests of that kind myself. Maybe I'll focus on artificial intelligence no

My dearest congratulations to Prof. Hinton for this year's Nobel Prize in Physics! As far as I know you are the first and only non-physicist to win the Prize, and you are also the first and only person in the world who has won both the Turing Award and the Nobel Prize. You definitely deserve the Prize because your research is moving the world. To the Nobel Committee: I would suggest renaming the Nobel Prize in Physics to "Nobel Prize in Physics or Computer Science" as this would enable many new opportunities. Mind that when Alfred Nobel was alive, computer science did not exist yet and Nobel was not able to anticipate its impact on the world.