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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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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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TOC In The Future
Results of the panel at the Theory Fest Géraud Sénizergues proved in 1997 that equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata (DPDAs) is decidable. Solving this...
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Does Logic Apply To Hearings?
The problem of mining text for implications 2016 RSA Conference bio, speech Michael Rogers, the head of the National Security Agency, testified before the Senate...
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Goldilocks Principle And P vs. NP
The rule of three Wikimedia Commons source Robert Southey was the Poet Laureate of Britain from 1813 until his death in 1843. He published, anonymously, “The Story...
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A Great Solution
A great conjecture too Alternate photo by Quanta Thomas Royen is a retired professor of statistics in Schwalbach am Taunus near Frankfurt, Germany. In July 2014...
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Theory Fest—Should You Go?
Theory Fest—Should You Go? Boaz Barak and Michael Mitzenmacher are well known for many great results. They are currently working not on a theory paper, but on a...
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Turing Award 2016
It takes a … Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the latest winner of the ACM Turing Award. He was cited for “inventing the World Wide Web (WWW), the first web browser, and...
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The End Of Human Science?
Could we go the way of telegraph operators? Pixabay source Lofa Polir has sent us some new information that will have widespread ramifications for math and theory...
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Gender Bias: It Is Worse Than You Think
q Science meets bias and diversity Deborah Belle is a psychology professor at Boston University (BU) who is interested in gender differences in social behavior....
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Is Computer Security Possible?
The breaks keep on coming… Holly Dragoo, Yacin Nadji, Joel Odom, Chris Roberts, and Stone Tillotson are experts in computer security. They recently were featured...
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Raymond Smullyan, 1919–2017
Serious work amid the puzzles and jokes. Amazon source When Raymond Smullyan was born, Emanuel Lasker was still the world chess champion. Indeed, of the 16 universally...
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A Panel On P vs. NP
A discussion on the famous problem William Agnew is the chairperson of the Georgia Tech Theoretical Computer Science Club. He is, of course, an undergraduate at...
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How to Check a Proof
What to do about claims of hard theorems? Cropped from source Shinichi Mochizuki has claimed the famous ABC conjecture since 2012. It is still unclear whether or...
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Snow And Theory
The 25th Anniversary of the ACO Program Cropped from src1 & src2 in gardens for karma Prasad Tetali and Robin Thomas are mathematicians at Georgia Tech who are...
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Babai’s Result: Still a Breakthrough
Even after today’s retraction of quasi-polynomial time for graph isomorphism Cropped from source László Babai is famous for many things, and has made many seminal...
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Hunting Complexity in Zeta
A second look at Voronin’s amazing universality theorem Anatoly Karatsuba and Sergei Voronin wrote a book on Bernhard Riemann’s zeta function. The book was translated...
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Bletchley Park
Lessons from the Park that still apply today Iain Standen is the CEO of the Bletchley Park Trust, which is responsible for the restoration of the Park. After the...
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