I can not understand!

"What I cannot create, I do not understand".

I am pleased to announce that the third Journal of Cell Science special issue will be focused on ‘Reconstituting cell biology’. Cell biology aims to understand not only what is going on inside individual cells, but also how those cells react and respond to each other and their immediate environment, regardless of whether they are single cells or the building blocks of multicellular organisms. W...

How Can the Supreme Court Not “Understand” Patent Law?

The Supreme Court does understand patent law. This invited Essay responds to Federal Circuit Judge Dyk’s remarks at the Chicago-Kent Supreme Court IP Review, in particular, his observation that the patent “bar and the academy have expressed skepticism that the Supreme Court understands patent law well enough to make the governing rules” (a view Judge Dyk did not endorse). The idea that the Supr...

How can Merlin understand?

It’s Not Magic: I Can Prove It

Our work presents a new approach to developing, analyzing, and proving correctness of programs intended for execution on a quantum computer. We provide tools to write quantum as well as classical specifications, develop quantum and classical solutions for them, and analyses various properties of quantum specifications and quantum programs, such as implementability, time and space complexity, an...

On What I Do Not Understand (and Have Something to Say): Part I

This is a non-standard paper, containing some problems in set theory I have in various degrees been interested in. Sometimes with a discussion on what I have to say; sometimes, of what makes them interesting to me, sometimes the problems are presented with a discussion of how I have tried to solve them, and sometimes with failed tries, anecdote and opinion. So the discussion is quite personal, ...