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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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CRA Snowbird 2018
Marios Papaefthymiou (UC Irvine), Michael Franklin (U. Chicago), Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern) and me. This week I attended the 2018 Computing Research Association...
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The Mystical Bond Between Man and Machine
You just can't watch a movie these days without being inundated with trailers. First came Axl, a movie about a boys love for a military robotic dog. "It's...
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Happy 90th Juris!
Juris Hartmanis turns 90 today. Hartmanis with Richard Stearns received the 1993 Turing Award for their seminar work On the Computational Complexity of Algorithms...
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STOC 50 Part II
On Wednesday, STOC had a great complexity session and the best complexity paper of the conference, Cody Murray and Ryan Williams extending Ryan’s celebrated result...
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STOC 50 Part I
This week I'm in Los Angeles attending the 50th Symposium on the Theory of Computing. Most attendees weren't even born before the first STOC. Many of them weren't...
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Hoteling
Thanks to Grigory Yaroslavtsev for taking over the Theory Jobs Spreadsheet. Details on Grigory's blog. Check out who is going where next year. My office...
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BQP not in the Polynomial-Time Hierarchy in Relativized Worlds
The quantum complexity world is a rocking with the paper released yesterday by Ran Raz and Avishay Tal, Oracle Separation of BQP and PH, resolving a question open...
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Seventh Grade Math Contest
I stumbled upon an old blog post on the Lesswrong weblog that quotes several famous mathematicians on the connections, or lack thereof, between mathematics competitions...
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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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