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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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Mary Jean Harrold
Mary Jean has passed away—she is already greatly missed Mary Jean Harrold started like many of her generation, as a math major. She earned her BS and MA degrees...
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Teacher Teach Yourself
How teaching helps you understand proofs Stanislav Žák is a theorist who has made important contributions to complexity theory. He was at the Institute for Computation...
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Space Is Easier Than Time
We really understand the complexity theory of space Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of the book The Edge of Physics. He also consults for Britain’s New Scientist...
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Euler’s Constants
Having a constant named after you is cool Jeffrey Lagarias was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories for years, and later joined the...
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Euclid Strikes Back
An application of Euclid’s famous proof there are an infinite number of primes Euclid of Alexandria, Euclid for short, composed one of the most influential books...
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Move the Cheese
Report on the recent Coding, Complexity, and Sparsity Workshop Martin Strauss and Anna Gilbert and Atri Rudra are the organizers of the just-held Coding, Complexity...
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Making Choices
The Axiom Of Choice, some history, some ideas Gregory Moore is a historian of mathematical logic. One connection he has to things dear to us is that he edited the...
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Surely You Are Joking?
A new way to write mathematics Vladimir Voevodsky won the Fields Medal in 2002 for his work on homotopy theory of algebraic varieties. Using his pioneering methods...
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It Takes Guts To Do Research
Or rather to find bold paths when opportunity gives only part of a map Robert Oppenheimer was one of the great physicists of the last century. He is most famous...
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Happy Father’s Day
And the mother who gave it to us Sonora Dodd is widely credited with the creation of Father’s Day. The first one was organized by her in Spokane, Washington in...
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The Mathematics Of Dieting
Yes there are math issues in this activity William Banting may have created the first very popular diet. In 1863 he published the Letter on Corpulence, Addressed...
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A Trillion Dollar Math Trick
How linear algebra can make databases go really fast Mike Stonebraker is one of the world’s leading expert on database technology. He started in academe at Berkeley...
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Sex, Lies, And Quantum Computers
Okay, no sex, but a discussion about quantum computers. Steven Soderbergh directed the famous movie: Sex, Lies, and Videotape. This 1989 movie won the Palme d’Or...
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Can We Prove Better Independence Theorems?
An approach to independence with more complexity dependence Florian Pelupessy recently defended his PhD thesis at the University of Ghent in Belgium. In joint work...
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Measures Are Better
The Littlewood conjecture—another drive you crazy conjecture John Littlewood is the latter half of famous duo of Hardy-Littlewood. I have discussed him before here...
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The Thousand Percent Solution
Boeing Dreamliner’s battery of problems Ray LaHood was until recently the top FAA administrator, the head of the U.S. agency that oversees air safety for the United...
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Cryptography Is Dead?
Comments from a keynote panel Whitfield “Whit” Diffie, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Dan Boneh are all famous cryptographers. They just gave a keynote panel at this...
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Adding Dollar Signs
A few remarks on papers to appear at the 2013 Computational Com- plexity Conference Chris Umans is the program chair of the upcoming Computational Complexity Conference...
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The Informatics Prize
From a specialty in Complex Analysis Rolf Nevanlinna was one of the top complex analysts of the last century, and is widely cited as the most famous Finnish mathematician...
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