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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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GLL At the Chess Match
Dick and I will be on Sunday’s game telecast Business Insider source Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Sergey Karjakin of Russia are midway through their world championship...
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Unskewing the Election
Not the polls but voter impulse this time Cropped from source Nate Silver has gone out on a limb. Four years ago we posted on how the forecast of his team at FiveThirtyEight...
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Halloween Math Style
The top scariest possible results Head chopped from source Washington Irving was a famous writer of the early 1800’s who is best known for his short stories. The...
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Absolute Firsts
An initiative for women in computing AIA source Louise Bethune was the first female professional architect in the United States, and possibly the world. She worked...
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Going For Two
Some football wisdom from Dick Karp Cropped from S.I. Kids source John Urschel is a PhD student in the Applied Mathematics program at MIT. He has co-authored two...
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Why Is Being Truthful A Good Thing?
In the context of stable matching problems Jamie Morgenstern is a researcher into machine learning, economics, and especially mechanism design. Today Ken and I...
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Congratulations, Noam
The winner of the 2016 ACM-IEEE Knuth Prize Coursera source Noam Nisan has been one of the leaders in computational complexity and algorithms for many years. He...
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A Creeping Model Of Computation
Local rules can achieve global behavior Sarah Cannon is a current PhD student in our Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization program working with Dana Randall...
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A Proof Of The Halting Theorem
Toward teaching computability and complexity simultaneously Computing Large Numbers source Wilhelm Ackermann was a mathematician best known for work in constructive...
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How Hard, Really, is SAT?
A new longest computer proof makes us wonder about things from security to the Exponential Time Hypothesis Marijn Heule, Oliver Kullmann, and Victor Marek are experts...
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Descending Proofs Into Algorithms
A way to make indirect reasoning more palpable Wikimedia Commons source Nicholas Saunderson was the fourth Lucasian Professor at Cambridge, two after Isaac Newton...
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The World Turned Upside Down
Some CS reflections for our 700th post MacArthur Fellowship source Lin-Manuel Miranda is both the composer and lyricist of the phenomenal Broadway musical Hamilton...
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Getting to the Roots of Factoring
We revisit a paper from 1994 Richard Lipton is, among so many other things, a newlywed. He and Kathryn Farley were married on June 4th in Atlanta. The wedding was...
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Polynomial Prestidigitation
Suddenly a sharp bound on progression-free subsets is revealed Ernie Croot, Vsevolod Lev, and Péter Pach (CLP) found a new application of polynomials last month...
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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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Coins on a Chessboard III
From knight’s tours to complexity Von Warnsdorf’s Rule source Christian von Warnsdorf did more and less than solve the Knight’s Tour puzzle. In 1823 he published...
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Quantum Supremacy and Complexity
An AMS article by Gil Kalai updates his skeptical position on quantum computers Cropped from Rothschild Prize source Gil Kalai is a popularizer of mathematics as...
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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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