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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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Wall Street Complexity
There is much blame to go around for JPMorgan Chase's two billion dollar loss last week but part of that blame came back to us. In a New York Times web piece, ...
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Paying to Publish
You proved a nice theorem, wrote up the paper and submitted it to a major computer science conference. Your paper was accepted! Congratulations. Now pay up. An...
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Microsoft saves the Yahoo NY Researchers
I started working with David Pennock on prediction markets back when we both were at the NEC Research Institute in New Jersey a decade ago. After a major reorganization...
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Berkeley Wins the Simons
As reported today in the New York Times, the Simons Foundation has chosen U. C. Berkeley to host the new Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, a $6,000,000...
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Is Moore's Law Good for CS?
Roy Friedman writes a blog post on The Expected End of Moore
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CS in the Sunshine State
As many of you've heard the Dean of Engineering at the University of Florida is planning deep cuts to the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Department...
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Some Announcements
STOC early registration deadline is Thursday. This year STOC will have both tutorials and workshops and its second poster session. Hope to see you all there. The...
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ACM/IEEE Curriculum 2013
[STOC 2012 Early Registration Deadline Thursday] On a roughly ten-year cycle, the ACM and IEEE Computer Society get together to create a list of core topics that...
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Unique Golf Winners
In the Masters Golf Tournament held last weekend there were 55 players who had a final score between 10 under par and 9 above. By the pigeonhole principle one would...
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We Think Like Our Fields
Have lunch with economists and they'll talk about the decision making processes and equilibriums of everything from politics to sports. Computer scientists worry...
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The Value of an Academic Publication
Russell O'Connor's paper was accepted into last years ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Generic Programming. Russell put the final version of his paper on the ArXiv under...
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Sanjeev Arora wins ACM-Infosys Award
Sanjeev Arora will receive the 2011 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, the highest honor ACM gives to a mid-career scientist. Sanjeev Arora is one of the architects...
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David Waltz (1943-2012)
David Waltz, head of the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia, passed away yesterday after a battle with a brain tumor at the age of 68. David...
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A Busy Time of The Year
It's spring break week at Northwestern so life is supposed to be quiet. No such luck. Endre Szemer
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Heading South
Starting in July, I'll be chair of the School of Computer Science in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Annie Ant
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Intel Science Talent Search
Last week I went to the Intel Science Talent Search Awards Ceremony in DC, probably the most prestigious math and science competition for American high school students...
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March Madness
Once again, America's favorite binary tree, the NCAA Men's National Championship Bracket. The tree seems to get more unbalanced every year. There are four regions...
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Scott wins the Waterman
The NSF's most prestigious prize, the Alan T. Waterman award, recognizes an outstanding young scientist (35 or under) in any field of science or engineering. Breaking...
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The Internet of the Present
On this blog we rarely get non-spam comments on posts more than a few days old. Sometimes I can bring up a topic I had posted on just a few months ago and no one...
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