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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 …
From Computational Complexity
Do We Still Need Great Minds?
An anonymous comment on a recent post on alternate histories. As far as science is concerned I don't believe that the great minds are needed anymore. They only...
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Get Ready
My daughters, now in college, never knew a time when they couldn't communicate with anyone instantaneously. Molly, now 18, takes pride having the same birth year...
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Alternate Histories
Imagine if we had a machine that let us change some earlier moment in history and see what developed. We wouldn't actually change history--that would lead to paradoxes...
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2016 Fall Jobs Post
The weather cools down, the leaves change color and you start thinking about what you plan to do after you graduate. As a public service every year about this time...
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Typecasting from Avi's 60th Celebration
Lance: Live from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Bill and I are doing a typecast from the Avi Wigderson 60th Birthday Celebration. Hi...
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Who's Afraid
The playwright Edward Albee passed away earlier this month at the age of 88. I had never actually seen any of his plays so I took the opportunity to watch theWho's...
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Boris Trakhtenbrot (1921-2016)
I woke up this morning to two pieces of news. Subhash Khot has just been named a MacArthur Fellow, the "genius" award, for his work on unique games. But I also ...
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Academic Rankings Foster Competition
This week US News and World Report released their undergraduate rankings earlier this week. A time for schools to brag. US News and World Report used to publish...
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Noam Nisan wins the Knuth Prize
Noam Nisan will receive the 2016 Donald E. Knuth Prize, the highest honor in theoretical computer science, for his work in computational complexity and algorithmic...
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Why I Don't Believe in ET
Is there life on other planets? The naive answer is "of course, why should Earth be special." What makes a lottery winner special? We could have just won the life...
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The Letter
Guest post by Molly Fortnow, incoming member of the University of Chicago class of 2020. On January 24, 2011, a miraculous thing happened. I was published on the...
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1956 Was a Fine Vintage
Bill sends me an email last week with the subject "Our field is getting old!" and talks about upcoming 60th birthday/retirement conferences he's invited to, all...
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Predicting in Changing Environments
The New York Times yesterday ran a story connecting climate change to the Louisiana flooding. The National Weather Service reports that parts of Louisiana have...
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Robin Hanson's Ems
Robin Hanson an economist at George Mason and author of the Overcoming Bias blog, has a new book The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth.White...
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Seymour Papert (1928-2016)
Seymour Papert, the great AI pioneer, passed away Sunday at the age of 88. In the theory community we best know him for his 1969 book Perceptrons with Marvindied...
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GAMES/EC 2016
This week I report from Maastricht in the Netherlands from the GAMES 2016, the 5th World Congress of the Game Theory Society. By having their congress every four...
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Snowbird 2016
Earlier this week I attended the 2016 CRA Snowbird Conference, a biennial meeting of CS chairs and other leaders in the the computing community. I’ve attended every...
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Excalibur
Goro Hasegawa passed away last week at the age of 83. Hasegawa created and popularized the board game Othello based on an old British game Reversi. Back in the...
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STOC 2016
I attended the 2016 STOC Conference earlier this week in Cambridge, Massachusetts. No shortage of awesome results highlighted by László Babai's new quasipolynomial...
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