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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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Rabin Meets Lagrange
On Rabin’s recent talks at Tech Jeffrey Shallit is a computational number theorist, with many wonderful results. He is also well known for his work as an advocate...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2014
A shocking story from our friendly Leprechaun Neil L. is not a computer scientist—he is a Leprechaun. He has visited me every year since I started writing GLL,...
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day 2014
A shocking story from our friendly Leprechaun Neil L. is not a computer scientist—he is a Leprechaun. He has visited me every year since I started writing GLL,...
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How To Carry Fame
Long proofs are not always the most important results Michael Rabin is visiting Georgia Tech today and tomorrow to give a pair of distinguished lectures. Both of...
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How To Carry Fame
Long proofs are not always the most important results Michael Rabin is visiting Georgia Tech today and tomorrow to give a pair of distinguished lectures. Both of...
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Can Plants Do Arithmetic?
The computational power of plants Martin Howard and Alison Smith are research scientists at the John Innes Centre (JIC) in Norwich, England. JIC was founded as...
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The Evil Genius
Do We Live In A Simulation? René Descartes is famous for countless things in mathematics—Cartesian products, Cartesian coordinates, Descartes’ rule of signs, the...
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Three From CCC
Comments on three papers from the Conference on Computational Complexity Michael Saks is Chair of the Program Committee of this year’s Conference on Computational...
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Regression On Arithmetic Progressions
How far can trivial ideas go? Klaus Roth is famous for many results, but two stand out above all others. One sets limits on Diophantine approximations to algebraic...
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Global Warming?
It snowed in Atlanta, and we are closed, for the foreseeable future—where is global warming? Atlanta is frozen. Here is what we looked like the other night. Today...
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Progress On The Jacobian Conjecture
More on the crypto approach to the Jacobian Conjecture Arno van Essen is one of the world experts on the Jacobian conjecture (JC)—we have discussed his work before...
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Zack’s Mom Knows
A puzzle with a story Dick Karp needs no introduction. So I will give him none. Okay I will say that it has been an honor to know him for many years—we meet right...
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Anti-Social Networks
Applications of social networks to arbitrary graphs Tim Roughgarden is a faculty member at Stanford, with interests in modern algorithms—my term. So his research...
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Bounds On Binomial Coefficents
A simple but useful bound on binomial coefficients Andreas von Ettingshausen was a German mathematician and physicist who lived in the early part of the 19 century...
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The Winner Is…
Our selections for best results of the year Terry Gilliam is the director of the movie The Zero Theorem. This science fiction film came out just this past year,...
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Re-gifting An Old Theorem
An old theorem re-packaged? Emily Post was America’s premier writer on etiquette for much of the 20th Century. The Emily Post Institute, which she founded in 1946...
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A Pardon For Alan Turing
I beg your pardon Elizabeth Mary, Queen Elizabeth II, is the Queen of the United Kingdom and of the other Commonwealth realms. She has just today granted Alan Turing...
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What Is Best Result Of The Year?
What do you think? Charles Lindbergh is famous for his solo non-stop flight that left Roosevelt Field in Long Island on May 20, 1927 and arrived the next day at...
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Who Knew The Secret?
Controlled release of secret information Peter Winkler is a world famous mathematician who works mostly on combinatorial problems. He is famous for many things,...
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