This episode is the last of four very special episodes produced by the students of Stanford’s Autumn 2018-2019 freshman seminar EE 25N! In Episode 5 of The Informaticists, Team Go HAAM! brings together fascinating topics from two ends of the physics spectrum: the very tiny (as explained by Peter McMahon, postdoctoral scholar in the Mabuchi…

This episode is the third of four very special episodes produced by the students of Stanford’s Autumn 2018-2019 freshman seminar EE 25N! In this episode, Team Michael Plus 1 tells us all about exciting work in personalized medicine from the labs of Drs. Euan Ashley and Hanlee Ji, plus Professor Tsachy Weissman‘s thoughts on the…

This episode is the second of four very special episodes produced by the students of Stanford’s Autumn 2018-2019 freshman seminar EE 25N! Episode 3 of The Informaticists brings together the worlds of quantum computing, as explained by Professor Hideo Mabuchi, and cryptography, as explained by Dr. Ziv Goldfeld, in this episode produced by The Quantum Squad.…

This episode kicks off four very special episodes produced by the students of Stanford’s Autumn 2018-2019 freshman seminar EE 25N! First up, an episode highlighting the work of neuroscientist E.J. Chichilnisky, produced by Team Eunji et al. Team Eunji et al. consists of Eunji Lee, Elina Mirbaha, Jordan Nicholson and Shreya Ravi. To find out more…

Information theory is a field that came into being in 1948, and is responsible for the digital information age that we live in today. In this episode, we get a glimpse into what life was like before digital information, learn about how digital information came to be, and explain what it entails. We’ll also hear…