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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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Alice and Bob and Pat and Vanna
"The only useful thing computer science has given us is Alice and Bob" - A physicist at a 1999 quantum computing workshop Alice and Bob, great holders of secrets...
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A Bridge Too Far
In Atlanta last week a fire destroyed a major highway bridge right on my, and so many others, commutes. I've been playing with different strategies, like coming...
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Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time
In one of the hallway discussions of last week's Dagstuhl I learned about an upcoming STOC paper Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time by Cristian Calude...
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The Dagstuhl Family
This week I'm at the Dagstuhl workshop on Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems. As you long time readers know Dagstuhl is a German center that hosts...
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NP in ZPP implies PH in ZPP
If NP is in ZPP is the entire polynomial-time hierarchy in ZPP? I saw this result used in an old TCS Stackexchange post but I couldn't find a proof (comment ifharder...
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The Beauty of Computation
Lisa Randall wrote a New York Times book review of Carlo Rovelli's Reality Is Not What It Seems with some interesting responses. I want to focus on a single sentence...
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International Science
I did some counting and the 35 academic faculty members in the Georgia Tech School of Computer Science come from 14 different countries. My co-authors come from...
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Ken Arrow and Oscars Voting
Kenneth Arrow, the Nobel Prize winning economist known for his work on social choice and general equilibrium, passed away Tuesday at the age of 95. I can't cover...
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Liberatus Wins at Poker
Tuomas Sandholm (center) and Ph.D. student Noam Brown (via CMU) Congratulations to Liberatus the new poker champ. Liberatus, an AI program, beat several top-ranked...
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The Dichotomy Conjecture
Arash Rafiey, Jeff Kinne and Tomás Feder settle the Feder-Vardi dichotomy conjecture in their paper Dichotomy for Digraph Homomorphism Problems. Jeff Kinne is my...
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We Are All Iranians
A solidarity rally held at Georgia Tech today There are ten Iranian members of my department, the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, all of whom face...
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60 years of Eric and Mike
As I checked in at the Holiday Inn in New Brunswick Wednesday night, they asked me if I had stayed there before. I said it has been a while and they lookedWorkshop...
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Infinite Series and Markov Chains
There's a wonderful new series of math videos PBS Infinite Series hosted by Cornell Math Phd student Kelsey Houston-Edwards. Check out this latest video on Markov...
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Babai Strikes Back
"So it is quasipolynomial time again" Short Version: Babai fixed his proof. In November 2015 László Babai announced a talk "Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial...
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Learning About Learning
Yesterday Scott Aaronson released his sweeping new P v NP survey. Babai gave an update on graph isomorphism, in short while he still has the first subexponential...
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Complexity Year in Review 2016
Paper of the year goes to A Discrete and Bounded Envy-Free Cake Cutting Protocol for Any Number of Agents by Haris Aziz and Simon Mackenzie. Might not seem like...
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Hidden Figures
Yesterday in our tradition of seeing math movies on Christmas, we saw Hidden Figures, the story of African-American women who worked as "computers" at NASA in...
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Moneyball for Academics
MIT and Tel Aviv business school professors Dimitris Bertsimas, Erik Brynjolfsson, Shachar Reichman and John Silberholz wrote an intriguing paper Tenure Analytics...
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Freedom of Speech
Bill and I have always strongly believed in the principle of freedom of speech, guaranteed to us by the constitution of the United States. The government block...
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