From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
…
B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
Back in May I posted about a paper that finds primes pseudodeterministically and Quanta magazine recently published a story on the result. Oddly enough the paper...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | July 19, 2023 at 09:46 AM
Twitter tells me it's my twitterversary, 15 years since I first started tweeting. Not sure I'll make it to sweet sixteen.No longer do tweets show up on this blog...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | July 13, 2023 at 10:34 AM
The New York Times published an article with the ominous title A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics, Too. We know by the work of Gödel and Turing that we can't automate...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | July 5, 2023 at 09:22 AM
Guest post by Ravi BoppanaHerman
Chernoff celebrates a milestone today: he turns 100
years old.
We in theoretical computer science know Professor Chernoff
primarily...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | July 1, 2023 at 09:43 AM
Computer science and mathematicians often try to use logic to negotiate whether it be at a university or life in general. I've tried it myself and it doesn't usually...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | June 22, 2023 at 01:15 PM
NeurIPS recently released their 2021 consistency report, a sequel to the 2014 experiment. While the conference has grown dramatically, the results remain "consistent"...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | June 15, 2023 at 05:04 PM
In 2003, Agrawal, Kayal and Saxena showed that primality testing is in P, i.e., you could test for primes without using any randomness.What if you want to findposted...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | May 25, 2023 at 09:17 AM
Last week I got the following email from Blogger:As you may know, our Community Guidelines (https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | May 18, 2023 at 08:54 AM
I fear we are heading to a computer science winter. Now why would I say that when CS enrollments are at record levels and AI is driving incredible excitement in...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | May 11, 2023 at 09:38 AM
Guest post by Josh Grochow and Youming QiaoThere has, quietly, been somewhat of a breakthrough in isomorphism testing. No, not as big as Babai's 2016 Graph Isomorphism...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | May 4, 2023 at 07:12 AM
Talk about AI "alignment" makes me think of a time in the 1950s that a group of companies decided tocreate an industry organization to self-govern their work to...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 26, 2023 at 04:59 PM
On Tuesday, at the behest of an alumnus, I spent the afternoon at HIMSS, a large health tech conference being held at the big convention center in Chicago. When...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 20, 2023 at 05:30 PM
This week finds me at the Simons Institute for Theoretical Computer Science in Berkeley California. Simons started about the same time I joined the administrative...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 13, 2023 at 01:07 PM
About six years ago, I posted on why it was important to understand machine learning, mentioning trust, fairness, security and causality. But I then I brought in...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 10, 2023 at 01:37 PM
Eric Allender graciously agreed to write this remembrance of Neil Jones.Neil Jones passed away on March 27.Neil's work had a profound impact on the field of computational...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 4, 2023 at 03:05 PM
Carlos May waving to the crowd on April 1, 1972Instead of the usual April Fools’ Day post, I present one of the best April Fools Day stunts ever. Here’s the text...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | April 1, 2023 at 10:04 AM
Last Thursday I attended the world premier of The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing, a new production from Chicago Opera Theater composed by Justine Chen with the...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 29, 2023 at 11:29 AM
In my fall jobs post, I had trouble predicting this season's CS faculty job market but I didn't expect this: strong supply and strong demand, something we haven't...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 23, 2023 at 09:58 AM
Guest post by Josh Grochow
On the birdsite, Jay Cummings tweeted:
TOP 5 IDENTITIES OF ALL TIME5. You4. Can't 3. Rank2. Identities 1. eiπ + 1 = 0— Jay Cummings...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 16, 2023 at 04:31 PM
I ran into a partner of a computer scientist at a social event who asked me "Is the publication system in CS screwed up or really screwed up?" If you don't know...Lance Fortnow From Computational Complexity | March 6, 2023 at 09:08 AM