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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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Kolmogorov Complexity and Causation
I got an interesting email question. Suppose I give you a set of points S of the form (x,y). He suggested ideally they would be pairs of a real numbers. Supposing...
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The Complexity of the Firm
In 1937, a year after Turing had his seminal paper, Ronald Coase published a paper The Nature of the Firm to give a framework to why we have companies and how large...
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Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
When I took cryptography from Manuel Blum, he handed out copies of the chapter "Safecracker Meets Safecracker" from Richard Feynman's book Surely You're Joking...
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Broader Impacts Redefined
The ACM Future of Computing Academy suggests that "peer reviewers should require that papers and proposals rigorously consider all reasonable broader impacts, both...
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Memory is Hot
A good number of the faculty candidates interviewing at Georgia Tech have a common theme: Memory. Memory connected to databases, to programming languages, to...
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Lance and Bill Gather for Gardner
Every two years in Atlanta, recreational mathematicians gather to honor Martin Gardner, whose Scientific American column Mathematical Games through the 60's and...
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Almost Famous Quantum Polynomial Time
I have been playing with a new complexity class AFQP, defined in a yet-to-be-published manuscript by Alagna and Fleming. A language L is in AFQP if there is a polynomial...
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A Reduced Turing Award
A Turing machine has an extremely simple instruction set: Move left, move right, read and write. If you want to do real programming, you need something a bit...
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Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
Stephen Hawking passed away earlier this morning in Cambridge, England. As a brilliant theoretical physicist and best-selling author all while dealing withA...
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Data-Driven Programming
Five years ago I posted about Flash Fill, a then new Microsoft Excel feature that would reformat data based on examples. I just checked the latest version of Excel...
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Me and My Bolt
On Tuesday I got a knock on my car's window. Rolling it down someone asked if I liked my car as he was thinking of buying one himself. Was I driving the...
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NP is Hard
You don't get much press by stating conventional beliefs--there is no "round earth society". Nevertheless there are serious researchers out there trying to sayI...
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Corporate Education
First of all read the #metoo testimonial going around the TCS blogosphere. Our field is not immune. Last Sunday Frank Bruni wrote an op-ed column Corporations,...
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For the Love of Algorithms
Wired magazine labelled 2017 as The Year We Fell Out of Love with Algorithms. The article goes on to talk about how algorithms give us filter bubbles, affect elections...
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Flying Blind
Many computer science conferences have made a number of innovations such as a rebuttal phase, multi-tiered program committees, a hybrid journal/conference model...
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From Art to Science
Q: Why did the neural net cross the road? A: Who cares along as it got to the other side. Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman in their classic 1976 paper talk about...
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A Sensitive Game
Last month I posted about the sensitivity conjecture and today I would like to talk about an interesting game developed by Gilmer, Koucký and Saks and independently...
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Donald Knuth Turns Eighty
We've kept this blog going long enough that we start repeating our celebrations. Ten years ago Bill celebrated Don Knuth's 70th Birthday and today Donald Knuthcelebrates...
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Complexity Year in Review 2017
Theorem of the year goes to the resolution of the dichotomy conjecture. I wrote about the conjecture in February and while the Feder et. al paper didn't hold up...
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