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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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STOC Business Meeting
This week I'm at the Federated Computing Research Conference in Portland, a collection of many mostly ACM conferences. Last night was the STOC business meeting....
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A Metric Group Product
A guest post by Dylan McKay, recently graduated from Georgia Tech and soon to be PhD student at Stanford. Here a cute puzzle motivated by a pair of undergrads...
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Award Season
László Babai will receive the 2015 Knuth Prize and Daniel Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng will receive the 2015 Gödel Prize. ACM issued a press release for both...
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John Nash (1928-2015)
John Nash and his wife Alicia died in a taxi accident, returning from the airport after he received the Abel prize in Norway. The public knew John Nash as the "Beautiful...
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Theory Jobs 2015
In the fall we list theory jobs, in the spring we see who got them. Like last year, I created a fully editable Google Spreadsheet to crowd source who is going where...
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Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of the seminal paper on Computational Complexity
Juris Hartmanis and Richard Stearns in a photo dated May 1963. The main theorem from their paper is on the board later improved by Hennie and Stearns. Photo courtesy...
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The Virtuous Cycle
Last week we have a celebration of the new CS graduates at Georgia Tech where each graduating student says what their plans are for next year. Other than the few...
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Is Logarithmic Space Closed Under Kleene Star?
A Georgia Tech student asked the title question in an introductory theory course. The instructor asked his TA, the TA asked me and I asked the oracle of all things...
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Fifty Years of Moore's Law
Gordon Moore formulated his famous law in a paper dated fifty years and five days ago. We all have seen how Moore's law has changed real-world computing, but how...
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PH Infinite Under a Random Oracle
Benjamin Rossman, Rocco Servedio and Li-Yang Tan show new circuit lower bounds that imply, among other things, that the polynomial-time hierarchy is infinite relative...
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Baseball is More Than Data
As baseball starts its second week, lets reflect a bit on how data analytics has changed the game. Not just the Moneyball phenomenon of ranking players but also...
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FCRC 2015
Every four years the Association for Computing Machinery organizes a Federated Computing Research Conference consisting of several co-located conferences and some...
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Intuitive Proofs
As I mentioned a few months ago, I briefly joined an undergraduate research seminar my freshman year at Cornell. In that seminar I was asked if a two-dimensional...
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News Aplenty
Both the Turing Award and the Abel Prize were announced this morning. MIT databases researcher Michael Stonebraker wins the ACM Turing Award. He developed INGRES...
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Feeling Underappreciated
As academics we live and die by our research. While our proofs are either correct or not, the import of our work has a far more subjective feel. One can see where...
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Quotes with which I disagree
Often we hear pithy quotes by famous people but some just don't hold water. "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." Usually ...
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Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
Bill and I rarely write joint blog posts but with the loss of a great cultural icon we both had to have our say. Bill: Leonard Nimoy (Spock) died last weekLance...
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Selecting the Correct Oracle
After my post last week on the Complexity accepts, a friend of Shuichi Hirahara send Shuichi an email saying that I was interested in his paper. Shuichi contacted...
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Eliminate the Postal Service
It's gotten very difficult to mail a letter these days. There are no mailboxes along my ten mile commute. Georgia Tech has contracted with an outside company to...
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