Shaving With Einstein’s Razor

Marc LeBrun, Fixpoint, Inc., Novato, CA

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

Einstein’s Razor is the principle that “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler!” We will first explore how closely we can shave something as simple as arithmetic, without crossing over the bleeding edge. We will also briefly visit a proposal for open-source computer game development, touch on what Leibniz might think of today’s personal computing, and return to Einstein by demonstrating that object-oriented programming violates quantum mechanics.