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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 Surprise For Big-Data Analytics
A simple but interesting issue with analyzing high-dimensional data Peter Landweber, Emanuel Lazar, and Neel Patel are mathematicians. I have never worked with...
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Do results have a “teach-by-date?”
Teaching automata theory Noam Chomsky is famous for many many things. He has had a lot to say over his long career, and he wrote over 100 books on topics from linguistics...
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Progress On Modular Computation
New results on computing with modular gates Shiteng Chen and Periklis Papakonstaninou have just written an interesting paper on modular computation. Its title,...
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Making Public Information Secret
A way to recover and enforce privacy McNealy bio source Scott McNealy, when he was the CEO of Sun Microsystems, famously said nearly 15 years ago, “You have zero...
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Theory Meets Material Science
A great presentation on thermoelectrics Akram Boukai is a researcher in material science, and an expert on converting heat to electric energy: thermoelectrics....
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Rejection
Some fun rejection comments Joshua Gans and George Shepherd were doctoral students in economics at Stanford University back in the 1990s. They wrote an interesting...
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Get A Job
Doo wop, doo wop Richard Lewis, Bill Horton, Earl Beal, Raymond Edwards, and John Wilson—the Silhouettes—were a doo wop/R&B group whose single Get A Job was a number...
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ARC Day At Georgia Tech
A preview of the talks for this coming ARC Day ARC is our Algorithms & Randomness Center at Tech. It was created by Santosh Vempala, and this Monday ARC is holding...
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Missing Mate in Ten
Can we have overlooked short solutions to major problems? src Efim Geller was a Soviet chess grandmaster, author, and teacher. Between 1953 and 1973 he reached...
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The Primes Strike Again
And lead to new kinds of cheating and ideas for our field src Faadosly Polir is the older brother of Lofa Polir. He is now working as a full time investigative...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day
A trick of language and echoing Neil L. is a Leprechaun. He has been visiting me once every year since I started GLL. I had never seen a leprechaun before I began...
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One Flip Sends Many Bits
Another coins on a chessboard puzzle Cropped from Ashley’s TwiCopy source Hou Yifan and Maurice Ashley are champions of chess in several senses. Hou just regained...
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David Johnson: 1945-2016
David just passed away David Johnson was a computer theorist who worked on many things, with special emphasis on the care and treatment of hard computational problems...
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A Matter of Agreement
On the 2015 Turing Award Mirror image of source Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, and Ralph Merkle publicly broke the yoke of symmetry in cryptography in the 1970s...
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The Pierce-Birkhoff Conjecture
A kind of hierarchy collapse? Cropped from father-son bio source Garrett Birkhoff was a mathematician who is best known for his research on lattices, and also his...
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Waves, Hazards, and Guesses
Some matters of gravity in science Moshe Vardi is famous for many things, including his brilliant turn as the Editor-in-Chief of the Communications of the ACM....
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New NAE Members
More computer scientists are elected to the academy Dan Mote, the President of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), just announced this year’s class of members...
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Magic To Do
Can we avoid accepting what we cannot verify? Cropped from biography source Arthur Clarke was a British writer of great breadth and huge impact. He was a science...
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The 2016 Knuth Prize
A non-annoucement annoucement Crop from Farkas Prize src Michel Goemans is the chair of this year’s ACM/IEEE Knuth Prize committee. He teaches at MIT and among...
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