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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 hard problem inspired by an easy problem
The following problem was problem 1 (the easy one) on the Maryland Math Competition 2009 (I will later report on how the students did on it). Show that for every...
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Guest Post- Women in Theory Workshop
(Tal Rabin requested to post this so I am doing so. This post is essentially her email, so call it a guest post.) There will be a Women In Theory workshop for...
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Mild Request for Guest Posters.
(Deadline to submit a paper to CCC is Dec 15. Depending on when you read this that could be today or in the past.) As you all know from Lance's last post, Lance...
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CCC deadline Dec 15, 2009! (not factorial)
Submissions to 25th CCC are due TOMORROW! (Actually it could be TOMORROW, TODAY, or IN THE PAST depending on when you read this.) Should you submit? If you have...
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Whats your Game Mr. Bond? Nim?
BILL: Clyde is teaching a graduate course titled Games, Game Theory, and the Theory of Games. He tells me that there are basically eight kinds of games governed...
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Is posting about 17x17 problem BAD FOR ACADEMIA?
(The 17x17 problem has gotten far wider attention than I imagined--- Brian Hayes posted it on his website: here, and its also here and here. The last website is...
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Congrads to new ACM fellows
Congrads to ALL of the ACM Fellows which were annouced here. There are several theorists among them. I could try to list them or count them; however, the term...
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17x17: Comments on your comments
One of the comments on my last post, the 17x17 post, inquired if I am also interested in the other unknown grids (17x18, 18x18, 21x10, 21x11, 21x12, 22x10). I AM...
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The 17x17 challenge. Worth $289.00. This is not a joke.
The 17x17 challenge: worth $289.00. I am not kidding. Definition: The n x m grid is c-colorable if there is a way to c-color the vertices of the n x m grid soThe...
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An Undervalued Math Problem
As most of you know there are 7 problems worth $1,000,000 (see here). It may be just 6 since Poincare's conjecture has probably been solved. Why are these problems...
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Laptops in Church?
There are now bibles online where you can click for different versions, different translations, different interepretations, historical context, etc. The same is...
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Rules about Blogs becaues Blogs RULE!
There are now laws about blogging and twittering that Lance and I (and all the bloggers) will need to be aware of. Here is a short summary: If a blogger posts...
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New York Theory Day
IBM-NYU-COLUMBIA theory day on Dec 11 ! Here is pointer to more information: here My advice: If you are able to go (distance, time, money all okay) then you...
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Multi-Agent Biological Systems and Nat Algorithms Workshop (Guest Post)
Guest Post from Aaron Sterling Multi-Agent Biological Systems and the Natural Algorithms Workshop I attended the Natural Algorithms Workshop on November...
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If FACEBOOK the new email?
Back in 1993 I had the following conversation with one of my relatives: BILL: Just give me your email address and I'll email it to you. RELATIVE: I don't...
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Really Liked Bertinoro- Ramsey Thing
(Reminder: STOC Deadline Thursday Nov 5, 7:00PM, Eastern: link.) After yesterday's post about RaTLoCC 2009 (Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics, and Complexity)...
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Report From Ramsey-Logic-Complexity Workshop
Back from RaTLoCC 2009 which is Ramsey Theory in Logic, Combinatorics, and Complexity. Here are the list of talks: here. Reverse Mathematics tries...
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Notes on Dagstuhl
A few notes on Dagshul which Lance and I were at last week. I could tell you about the talks, but the website does a better job: here I value goingLinear...
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Need a Roomate for a Conference?
(Guest Post by Dave Doty pointing to a blog by ***SORELLE*** which points to a roomate finding service for conferences.) Sorelle has announced a new roommate...
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