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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
Making Money the (Computationally) Hard Way
Digital cash systems have come and gone but Bitcoin seems to be doing okay. By request I am giving a lecture about Bitcoin in my crypto class. Most of the material...
From Computational Complexity
The Annual Fall Jobs Post
For these looking for an academic job in computer science next year, best to start on the jobs pages of the CRA and the ACM. Both lists seem long this year, perhaps...
From Computational Complexity
Journals
What is the purpose of an academic journal? To provide a permanent vetted record of a specific research endeavor. The ways we communicate scientific research...
From Computational Complexity
The Digital Random Bit Generator
I started this month asking about the nature of randomness and how we generate it for our computers. Let me end the month talking about Intel's clever new digital...
From Computational Complexity
John McCarthy (1927-2011)
First Steve and then Dennis and now we have the death of a third computing pioneer this month. John McCarthy passed away earlier this week at the age of 84. McCarthy...
From Computational Complexity