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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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A New College of Computing at Illinois Tech
In 1890, Chicago South Side pastor Frank Gunsaulus gave a sermon where he said that with a million dollars he could build a school where students of all backgrounds...
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Pre-(Publish and Perish)
Guest post by Evangelos Georgiadis Quite a few posts have recently focused on papers,publications and venues; "optimal" venues for papers under different objective...
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The World of Publishing
Bill is out for blogging for a couple of weeks on injured-reserve (he’ll be fine). I put together a quick blog post on what’s happening in the world of publications...
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Quantum Provers to Infinity and Beyond
The Internets are buzzing about the new paper MIP* = RE by Zhengfeng Ji, Anand Natarajan, Thomas Vidick, John Wright and Henry Yuan. See posts by Scott, Boaz, not...
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Silicon Valley Ethics
Spoiler Alert: This post has details from the final episodes of the HBO television series Silicon Valley A few times I've gotten emails from people claiming they...
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Complexity Year in Review 2019
Some great theorems this year including non-deterministic double exponential time by quantumly entangled provers and integer multiplication in O(n log n) time.shockingly...
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Statistics to Scare
So how do you parse the following paragraph from Monday's NYT Evening Breifing. A study in JAMA Pediatrics this year found that the average Halloween resultedpaper...
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2019 Fall Jobs Post
Starting PhD students over time would always assume that the computer science academic job market would be a strong or as weak when they graduate as it is whenCRA...
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Quantum Supremacy
By now you've probably heard the rumors of Google achieving quantum supremacy. I don't have inside information outside of Scott's blog post but it looks like the...
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Transitioning
You may have noticed, or not, that I haven't posted or tweeted much in the last month. I've had a busy time moving back to Chicago and starting my new positionsignificant...
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The Advisor/Advisee Relationship
I've always felt a strong advisor/advisee relationship is the single most important factor in a successful PhD career. At its best, the advisor works closely with...
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Degree and Sensitivity
Hao Huang's proof of the sensitivity conjecture that I posted on last week relied on a 1992 result of Gotsman and Linial. Let's talk about that result. Consider...
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Local Kid Makes History
The blogosphere is blowing up over Hao Huang's just posted proof of the sensitivity conjecture, what was one of the more frustrating open questions in complexity...
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FCRC 2019
Georgia Tech FCRC Participants I'm heading home from the 2019 ACM Federated Computing Research Conference in Phoenix, a collection of computer science meetings...
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The Urban/Rural Collegiality Divide
Just a reminder that Grigory Yaroslavtsev has taken over the Theory Jobs Spreadsheet. Check out who is moving where and let everyone know where you will continue...
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Compressing in Moscow
This week finds me in Moscow for a pair of workshops, the Russian Workshop on Complexity and Model Theory and a workshop on Randomness, Information and Complexity...
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What Happened to the Surprising Theorems?
Twenty-five years ago Peter Shor presented a polynomial-time factoring algorithms for quantum computers. For Peter, it was a simple translation of a quantum algorithm...
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NSF Panels
The government shut down in January led to delays at the National Science Foundation and only recently announcing decisions on grants submitted last fall. For those...
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Logic Then and Now
This week I attended the Association of Symbolic Logic North American Annual Meeting in New York City, giving a talk on P v NP. First I must share the announcement...
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