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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
From Schneier on Security Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration … B. Schneier | February 29, 2024
From Computational Complexity

Getting Through the Clutter

My daughter showed up at her doctor's office the other day and found it closed. She complained that she had received all these alerts, texts, emails, voicemails... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | May 16, 2019 at 08:46 AM
From Computational Complexity

Multiple Provers

Just over thirty years ago on May 5, 1989, I defended my PhD Thesis Complexity-Theoretic Aspects of Interactive Proof Systems. It's starts off with a parable for... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | May 9, 2019 at 08:31 AM
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The Next Chapter

I've accepted a position as Dean of the College of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago starting in August. It's an exciting opportunity... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | May 2, 2019 at 08:20 AM
From Computational Complexity

Geo-Centric Complexity

An interesting discussion during Dagstuhl last month about the US-centric view of theory. Bad enough that all talks and papers in an international venue are inManhattan... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | April 25, 2019 at 08:12 AM
From Computational Complexity

Physics of Everday Life

Based on Scott's review, I read through Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now. I can't top Scott's exposition of the book, but it is pretty incredible how far humanity... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | April 18, 2019 at 07:40 AM
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Cuckoo Cycles

Guest Blog by John Tromp (Thanks for the opportunity, Lance) In the past few months, cycle finding has become one of the most widely run graph theory problems.... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | April 4, 2019 at 07:50 AM
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Scooped

At Dagstuhl I got a few ideas for future posts but then... We had some discussions about STOC allowing program committee members to submit papers that I planned... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | March 28, 2019 at 07:26 AM
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Back at Dagstuhl

Participants and Their Research Interests This week I'm in Germany for the Dagstuhl workshop on Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems well timedtypecast... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | March 21, 2019 at 06:11 AM
From Computational Complexity

Captain Einstein

If the president of the United States uses "complexity" in a tweet, I can't leave it alone. Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | March 14, 2019 at 10:08 AM
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QED

Via Scott, John Horgan wrote a blog post following on his 1993 Scientific American article The Death of Proof. The article talked about computer-generated proofs... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | March 8, 2019 at 10:05 AM
From Computational Complexity

Flying Pigs Unsafe at Any Speed

Take a moment and imagine a flying pig. Do you see a pig with tiny wings lazily guiding along. But pigs are not particularly slow animals as anyone has seen a pig... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 28, 2019 at 08:50 AM
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Last weekend I saw the documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. Pulitzer, as you probably know from the prize named after him, was a major newspaper publisher... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 21, 2019 at 07:42 AM
From Computational Complexity

The iPhonification of Everything

So you've got an iPhone XS in Space Grey. Congrats, so do 20 million other people. Maybe you have different cases but otherwise the hardware in all these phones... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 14, 2019 at 07:52 AM
From Computational Complexity

An Immerman-Szelepcsényi Story

As a grad student in the late 80's I had the opportunity to witness many great and often surprising theorems in computational complexity. Let me tell you aboutnondeterministic... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 7, 2019 at 07:47 AM
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Phish Before Turkey

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a story Phishing Scheme Targets Professors’ Desire to Please Their Deans — All for $500 in Gift Cards. TheFrom... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 31, 2019 at 11:46 AM
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Machine Learning and Wind Turbines

My daughter Molly spent six weeks on an environmental program in China last summer. When she got back she had to do a report on machine learning and wind turbines... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 24, 2019 at 08:58 AM
From Computational Complexity

The Cost of Privacy

Billboard at 2019 CES Computer scientists tend to obsess about privacy and we've had a privacy/security debate for decades now. But now machine learning has... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 17, 2019 at 12:45 PM
From Computational Complexity

Search versus Decision

Shockingly I've never done a post on search versus decision, one of the more interesting dualities in complexity. In short: Decision: Is there a needle in the haystack... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 9, 2019 at 08:10 AM
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Complexity Year in Review 2018

Result of the year goes to Oracle Separation of BQP and PH by Ran Raz and Avishay Tal which we wrote about in June. This work solves one of the original openQuanta... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | December 31, 2018 at 07:25 AM
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Ker-I Ko (1950-2018)

A few weeks ago as Bill and I prepared for our upcoming year in review post, we noted that we hadn't lost any theoretical computer scientists this year, at least... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | December 26, 2018 at 08:31 AM
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