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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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Richard Hamming Centenary
Richard Hamming was born a hundred years ago today in Chicago. He worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II, moved to Bell Labs after the war and started...
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Computers Turn Good and Evil
Entertainment Weekly proclaimed 2015 the year that artificial intelligence will rule the (movie) world with talk of the Terminator reboot, the new Avengers movie...
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Reusing Data from Privacy
Vitaly Feldman gave a talk at Georgia Tech earlier this week on his recent paper Preserving Statistical Validity in Adaptive Data Analysis with Cynthia Dwork, Moritz...
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There Should be an Algorithm
My high school daughter Molly was reading her Kindle and said "You know how you can choose a word and the Kindle will give you a definition. There should be anword...
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The Impact Factor Disease
The Institute of Science Information (ISI) was founded in 1960 to help index the every growing collection of scientific journals. The founder of ISI, Eugene Garfield...
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The History of the History of the History of Computer Science
In 2007, the science historian Martin Campbell-Kelly wrote an article The History of the History of Software, where he writes about how he initially wrote histories...
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2014 Complexity Year in Review
Theorem of the year goes to 2-Server PIR with Sub-polynomial Communication by Zeev Dvir and Sivakanth Gopi. In Private Information Retrieval you want to accessshowed...
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Undergraduate Research
I just received the Cornell Math Matters, dedicated to the memory of Eugene Dynkin who passed away on November 14 at the age of 90. In my freshman year at Cornell...
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The NIPS Experiment
The NIPS (machine learning) conference ran an interesting experiment this year. They had two separate and disjoint program committees with the submissions split...
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The Ethics of Saving Languages
The linguist John McWhorter wrote an NYT opinion piece entitled Why Save a Language? where he argues why we should care about saving dying languages, basically...
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Favorite Theorems Recap
We've now completed five decades of favorite theorems. 1965-1974 1975-1984 1985-1994 (PDF) 1995-2004 And to recap the ten we chose this year from 2005-2014 ...
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A November to Remember
The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing opens in the US on November 28. If you read this blog you should see that movie. If one challenged...
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From Homework Solution to Research Paper
Inspired by the Dantzig Story I occasionally put an open problem on a class assignment. Never worked, though I did have a student get a research paper from solving...
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George Dantzig >= 100
We celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Dantzig today. In his obituary post we talked about his work on optimization, particularly the simplex...
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Favorite Theorems: Circuit Lower Bounds
My long time blog readers should have no surprise on my final favorite theorem of 2005-2014. Nonuniform ACC Circuit Lower Bounds by Ryan Williams (PDF) We sawlist...
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Metrics in Academics
Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants, winning the World Series last night. In honor of their victory let's talk metrics. Baseball has truly embraced metrics...
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Sipser Symposium
On Sunday we had the Symposium on Theoretical Computer Science on the Occasion of Michael Sipser's 60th birthday to celebrate what Mike has brought to research...
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MSR SVC Letters
The Committee for the Advancement of Theoretical Computer Science put together an open letter to several research leaders at Microsoft. We feel that there should...
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The Curious Case of NP and NEXP
NP (nondeterministic polynomial time) and NEXP (nondeterministic exponential time) are provably different classes by the nondeterministic time hierarchy. No surprise...
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