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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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Finding Coprime Pairs
Deferring or avoiding randomization Great Discoveries in STEM source Claude Bachet de Méziriac was a French mathematician of the early 1600s. He is the first person...
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Leprechauns Know What It Feels
To be human, that is Neil L. has graced these pages many times before. Every eve of St. Patrick’s Day he has visited Dick. Sometimes Dick has been hard to find,...
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Happy 0x50th Birthday, Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth’s 80th=0x50th birthday was on January 10.
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The Lemma Cited From Burnside
How might it be applied in complexity theory? St. Andrews history source William Burnside was a well-known researcher into the early theory of finite groups. Today...
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Some Technical Tidbits
Tid-bit: delicacy, dainty, snack, nibble, appetizer, hors d’oeuvre, goody, dipper, finger food Adam Engst is the publisher of the site TidBITS. This is a site dedicated...
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Timing Leaks Everything
Facing the awful truth that computers are physical machines As moderator of RSA 2016 panel Paul Kocher is the lead author on the second of two papers detailing...
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P=NP: Perhaps I Change My Mind
An old result put a new way Albert Meyer knows circuit lower bounds. He co-authored a paper with the late Larry Stockmeyer that proves that small instances of the...
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Proving Peano Arithmetic Partially Consistent?
An approach to consistency that could work… Kurt Gödel is feeling bored. Not quite in our English sense of “bored”: German has a word Weltschmerz meaning “world...
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A Magic Madison Visit
To give a Hilldale Lecture and learn about fairness and dichotomies UB CSE50 anniversary source Jin-Yi Cai was kind enough to help get me, Dick, invited last month...
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Lotfi Zadeh 1921–2017
But fuzzy logic lives on forever New York Times obituary source Lotfi Zadeh had a long and amazing life in academics and the real world. He passed away last month...
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Michael Cohen 1992-2017 and Vladimir Voevodsky 1966–2017
Two more tragic losses coming before a greater tragedy Composite of crops from src1, src2 Michael Cohen and Vladimir Voevodsky were in different stages of their...
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Drama Therapy: A Math Viewpoint
What is drama therapy? Kathryn Farley obtained her PhD from Northwestern University in performance studies in 2007. After almost a decade working in that area,...
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Happy Birthday Ken
It was just Ken’s birthday Kenneth Regan’s birthday was just the other day. I believe I join all in wishing him a wonder unbirthday today. The idea of unbirthday...
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A TSP Breakthrough
A new approximation algorithm Composite of src1, src2, src3 Ola Svensson, Jakub Tarnawski, and László Végh have made a breakthrough in the area of approximation...
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A Retirement Party for Joel Seiferas
A gathering this Labor Day in Rochester Announcement source Joel Seiferas retired on December 31, 2016 and is now a professor emeritus in the University of Rochester...
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On the Edge of Eclipses and P=NP
A topical look at Norbert Blum’s paper and wider thoughts. Thales of Miletus may—or may not—have accurately predicted one or more total solar eclipses in the years...
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Modeling Reality
A surprising theorem about differential equations Composite of src1, src2. Olivier Bournez and Amaury Pouly have proved an interesting theorem about modeling physical...
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Kitchen Tile Catalog Complete
All tessellating convex polygons found Cropped and combined from src1, src2. Michaël Rao and Marjorie Rice are linked in this month’s news. Rao has just released...
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Oded Wins The Knuth Prize
Just announced Oded Goldreich is one of the top researchers in cryptography, randomness, and complexity theory. Today Ken and I wish to thank the Knuth Prize Committee...
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