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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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Cheating at Chess—Not Again
Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the end game like a machine — Rudolf Spielmann Kenneth Regan is my dear friend and co-writer...
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Legal Complexity
Formal logical methods may be needed to represent the Donald Trump documents case her page Monica Palmirani is a Professor of Computer Science and Law at the University...
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Juris Hartmanis 1928–2022
A sure foundation for Computational Complexity source—wonderful 2015 CACM interview Juris Hartmanis passed away this morning. He was a professor in Cornell’s computer...
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Complexity 2022
Weaving patterns of proof and the accepted papers for this week’s conference her bio page Karen Donde is the Chair of Complexity 2022, which is being held this...
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Sorting and Proving
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts—Morris Kline Tony Hoare is also known informally as Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare. He has made key contributions...
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Laws and Laughs
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them—Jack Foster Roy Amara was a researcher and president of the Institute for the Future. Among...
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Women In Theory
I like crossing the imaginary boundaries people set up between different fields—it’s very refreshing. There are lots of tools, and you don’t know which one would...
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Easy as ABC
A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical...
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CCC 2022 Conference
I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences—Arnold Schwarzenegger Computational Complexity Conference CCC is about to happen...
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Being Different
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them—John von Neumann. Harvey Friedman is a famous mathematical logician who spent most of his...
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Hilbert’s Lost Problem
Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way—Pólya. David Hilbert famously presented 23 important open mathematical problems...
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Take Wing
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data—Sherlock Holmes Jeannette Wing is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. She was recently...
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Rafail Is No Secret
Never say anything in an electronic message that you wouldn’t want appearing, and attributed to you, in tomorrow morning’s front-page headline in the New York Times...
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Differential Privacy
I’m low-key. I like my privacy—Kemba Walker. Avrim Blum, Irit Dinur, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith, received the ACM 2021 Paris Kanellakis...
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Peter’s Face
Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding—Bill Thurston. Peter Weinberger is a computer scientist who...
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Sedgewick to Emeritus Status
Retire from your job, but never retire your mind. Bob Sedgewick is becoming an emeritus professor: When Faculty transfer to emeritus status and retain a professional...
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Math Monthly
Just because we can’t find a solution, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one—Andrew Wiles. Della Dumbaugh is a professor of mathematics at the University of Richmond....
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A Paradox
If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules—Paul Arden Dietrich Braess is a professor of mathematics at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany...
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Discussion About Proving—Again
Deja Vu All Over Again—Yogi Berra Rich DeMillo is one of my greatest friends, colleagues, and terrific co-authors. He is currently fighting an illness, and we wish...
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