From: Michael Anissimov (anissimov@intelligence.org)
Date: Sun Nov 06 2005 - 07:39:21 MST
Recently seen on Slashdot:
Eight-year-old physics genius enters university
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/11/05/200511050024.asp
Excerpt:
"He set a record by completing elementary, junior-high and high school
curricula in just nine months - a progression that normally takes
Koreans 12 years - before being admitted to university.
With no school record to rely on for screening Yoo-geun's
qualifications, the university tested him through an interview in
October. He surprised professors by explaining the Schroedinger
equation, which is of central importance to the theory of quantum
mechanics."
How much longer will it be before he starts making concrete
contributions to science, I wonder?
-- Michael Anissimov http://intelligence.org/ Advocacy Director, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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