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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Inverting Onto Functions
Here's an open question that goes back to a 2003 paper that I wrote with Steve Fenner, John Rogers and Ashish Naik. The conference paper goes back to 1996. In...
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Remembering George H. W. Bush
Today is the national day of mourning for George Herbert Walker Bush, one of the best presidents for science and computing. He created PCAST, the President's...
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LOGCFL Venkat Style
H. Venkateswaran, a much loved professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech and a fellow computational complexity theorist, is retiring at the end...
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Simons and Amazon
I'm spending this week at the Simons Institute in smokey Berkeley, California. This fall Simons has a program in Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity. Scroll...
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The Data Transformation of Universities
With all the news about elections, caravans, shootings and attorney generals, maybe you missed the various stories about real transformations at our top universities...
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P = NP Need Not Give a SAT Algorithm
In Bill's post earlier this week, he asks if there is a fixed algorithm such that if P = NP, this algorithm will correctly compute satisfiability on all inputs....
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Good Results Made Meaningless
Sometimes you see a beautiful theorem A that you love to talk about. Then another beautiful theorem B comes around, making the first one meaningless since B trivially...
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A New Cold War?
Imagine the following not-so-unrealistic scenario: The US-China trade war deepens leading to a cold war. The US blocks all Chinese citizens from graduate school...
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2018 Fall Jobs Post
As we do every year at this time, we help you find that perfect academic job. So who's hiring in CS this year? Perhaps we should instead follow the advice of John...
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Muffin Math
Lance: It's Friday afternoon and the Dagstuhl workshop has ended. We have some time before we need take off so how about one final typecast. Bill: Always a good...
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Still Typecasting from Dagstuhl
Lance: Bill, in our typecast earlier this week I said you were older than me. But 68? You don't look day over 66. Bill: Neither do you. But seriously, why do you...
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