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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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Kurt Gödel In The Movies
And a Limited TV Series — all in 2023 Kurt Gödel—or rather the actor Chris Urbaniak portraying him—appears in one brief scene in the movie Oppenheimer. He has no...
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Is P=NP a Grave Matter?
Our favorite problem moribund? The photo at right was taken by a friend—with thanks—in San Carlos, California, last weekend. We do not know who put out the Halloween...
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Fairness and Sampling
A talk by Sruthi Gorantla while visiting Georgia Tech Sruthi Gorantla is a fourth-year PhD candidate in computer science at the Indian Institute of Science and...
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Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities
A livestreamed talk by Yejin Choi at TTIC on Monday 10/16, 11:30am CT MacArthur Foundation source Yejin Choi is a professor and a MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G...
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Generating Functions and Singularities
Sharpening an analytic tool for regular languages IEEE source for Book, Even, Ott photos Ronald Book, Shimon Even, Sheila Greibach, and Gene Ott proved a fact that...
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2023 NAE Meeting
With a memorial to William Wulf Anita Jones will be attending the next 2023 National Academy of Engineering’s annual meeting in Washington DC. Kathryn and I will...
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Four and More Colors of Mathematics
A memorial to Wolfgang Haken (1928–2022) and more in the AMS Notices This month’s Notices of the American Mathematical Society for October 2023 has just been mailed...
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Happy Birthday 77
With brief musings on AI and the blog Richard Lipton has turned 77 today. He and Kathryn are back in Manhattan after spending much of the summer in Harbor Springs...
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Congrats to Three Colleagues
And a fourth Composite crop of src1, src2, src3 Vinod Vaikuntanathan and Santosh Vempala and Virginia Williams have a common thread. No, it’s not that they all...
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The Distributed Prize
And a ‘new’ computing ‘blog’ with over 1,300 sizable ‘posts’ unearthed Edsger Dijkstra contributed to many aspects of computing. His name is attached to Dijkstra...
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Should These Quantities Be Linear?
Drastic proposals for revamping the chess rating system Jeff Sonas is a statistician who runs a consulting firm. He also studies skill at chess. He has advised...
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Two Other Tests of Time
Mihalis Yannakakis 70-Fest and the 2023 Gödel Prize 2020 AAAS election—congrats on that too Mihalis Yannakakis is being honored with a 70th-birthday festival next...
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Independence Day 2046?
Plus backfeed on AI articles in today’s New York Times Will Smith may still be spry when we need him again. His first Oscar-worthy punch took out an alien in the...
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A New AKS
An award for attacking an NP-hard problem Miklós Ajtai, Ravi Kumar, and D. Sivakumar were among winners of the ACM STOC 2023 “Test of Time” Awards. The award recognized...
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A Hidden Heroine
William Friedman was famous as one who broke codes during both world wars. I knew about him from articles such as this. But wait His wife Elizebeth Smith Friedman...
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Computer Science Marches On
With a note on the death of someone who tried to stop it Arnold the Allosaurus is moving to new digs. All during my time at Princeton, he held sway in cavernous...
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A Little Noise Makes Quantum Factoring Fail
Jin-Yi Cai is one of the top theory experts in the world. Both Ken and I have had the pleasure to work with him and interact with him over the years. We have discussed...
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Human Extinction?
And some counter-arguments Hava Siegelmann is the Provost Professor in the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences at U.Mass. Amherst. She returned...
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Topping the Hat
An “einstein” that doesn’t need flipping Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics. She has an article that appeared...
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