Mr. Ali Haleeb

Mr. Ali Haleeb, a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, gave a seminar on the 14th of May, 2007 in Ibn Rushd Hall, entitled “Philosophical Implications of Some Digital Logic Design Techniques and Applications”. He said that “the deterministic nature of the laws of physics which was taken to be of unquestionable certainty has been defied at the beginning of the last century by the uncertainty principle of Heisenberg and the relativity theory of Einstein. However, that uncertainty of Heisenberg and Einstein was accepted because it was considered to be applicable only in particular areas and conditions which are far from our daily life. But, to discover this uncertainty in what came to be our everyday experience; in the digital logic design techniques and applications; is a real challenge that we have to cope with.” The seminar was about this challenge.

Mr. Haleeb’s topic was of great interest to the faculty members present, especially in light of recent news of physicist Stephen Hawking, author of ‘A History of Time’, who went on a well publicized trip where he was able to experience zero-gravity after many years of being bound to a wheelchair. Physics is a science that is becoming increasingly important as the study of science deepens and quickens. It has often been called the ‘fundamental’ science, since biology and chemistry, for example, are the sciences that study systems that have properties based on the laws of physics.