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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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A TTIC Talk
Julia Chuzhoy is a professor at TTIC—the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. She is giving a talk this Friday at TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue in the 5th...
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Isbell Accepts
Charles Isbell was my colleague at Georgia Tech for a long time. He has some news, which I am glad to convey in the words of the UW Madison Chancellor, Jennifer...
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Dark Silicon
Ivan Sutherland played a key role in foundational computer technologies back in the 1970s. He won most if not all the major awards—the Turing Award and the Kyoto...
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Some Rice News
Lydia Kavraki is the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science at Rice University. She is also professor of Bioengineering, professor of Electrical and Computer...
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An Award For Ellen Zegura
Ellen Zegura was just honored with the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award. The Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award recognizes outstanding achievement...
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Schoolbook Error/Discovery
Liam Squires is a fifth-grader at Virginia’s HM Pearson Elementary. He is now famous—after a story that is in print in today’s Sunday New York Times. Squires saw...
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ACM Prize to Yael Kalai
Plus evocations of the roles of complexity and verification in crypto and human relations Yael Kalai has just been named the winner of the 2022 ACM Prize. She works...
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Neil Jones, 1941–2023
Neil Jones, sad to relate, just passed away. He was Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, which he joined on a permanent basis...
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The ChatGPT Conundrum
High absolute, low relative Kolmogorov complexity 4/1 prank source [Editors’ Note: Our usual blog format has the first paragraph lead with a human subject, but...
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A New Tiling
With a flip and some twists Roger Penrose has been floored. And perhaps re-floored. Here he is standing on the floor of the Mitchell Institute of Texas A&M, which...
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William Wulf, 1939–2023
A great teacher and a great leader Bill Wulf just passed away. We send our best thoughts to his dear wife Anita Jones and the rest of his family. He is greatly...
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The 2022 Turing Award
Bob Metcalfe is the sole winner of the 2022 Turing Award. He keyed the development of Ethernet technology growing out of his PhD thesis while at Xerox PARC in the...
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Problems Better Than Solutions
Defining the problem often means more than solving it Avrim Blum is the CAO at TTIC who got his degrees at MIT and then was at CMU almost for 25 years: CAO is Chief...
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Céad Míle GPT
The gift of Broadscale Linguistic Affinely Regressed Neurally Encoded Yakking By Simplified from “leprechaun robot” Neil L. is sentient. As a fantastical creature...
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STACS 2023
The Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science—STACS—will take place from 7th March to 9th March 2023 in Universitat Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. It starts...
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SODA 2023
Traces of strings, plus ways of tracing accepted papers Anindya De was at Northwestern University and is now at the University of Pennsylvania—see here. He was...
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STOC 2023
STOC 2023 is the 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. It will be held on June 20-23, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. Perhaps the best paper ever at STOC...
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Thanks to Rich
Richard DeMillo deserves, in my opinion, an award for his decades of research. A difficulty I believe is that he has worked on multiple areas and made important...
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Novel Proofs of the Infinitude of Primes
Can they inform computational complexity theory? Bill Gasarch and Christian Elsholtz both like primes and jokes and graphs and ways of sharing baked goods. Bill...
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