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NSF Panels

The government shut down in January led to delays at the National Science Foundation and only recently announcing decisions on grants submitted last fall. For those...

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Logic Then and Now

This week I attended the Association of Symbolic Logic North American Annual Meeting in New York City, giving a talk on P v NP. First I must share the announcement...

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Getting Through the Clutter

My daughter showed up at her doctor's office the other day and found it closed. She complained that she had received all these alerts, texts, emails, voicemails...

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Multiple Provers

Just over thirty years ago on May 5, 1989, I defended my PhD Thesis Complexity-Theoretic Aspects of Interactive Proof Systems. It's starts off with a parable for...

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The Next Chapter

I've accepted a position as Dean of the College of Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago starting in August. It's an exciting opportunity...

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Geo-Centric Complexity

An interesting discussion during Dagstuhl last month about the US-centric view of theory. Bad enough that all talks and papers in an international venue are inManhattan...

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Physics of Everday Life

Based on Scott's review, I read through Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now. I can't top Scott's exposition of the book, but it is pretty incredible how far humanity...

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Cuckoo Cycles

Guest Blog by John Tromp (Thanks for the opportunity, Lance) In the past few months, cycle finding has become one of the most widely run graph theory problems....

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Scooped

At Dagstuhl I got a few ideas for future posts but then... We had some discussions about STOC allowing program committee members to submit papers that I planned...

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Back at Dagstuhl

Participants and Their Research Interests This week I'm in Germany for the Dagstuhl workshop on Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems well timedtypecast...

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Captain Einstein

If the president of the United States uses "complexity" in a tweet, I can't leave it alone. Airplanes are becoming far too complex to fly. Pilots are no longer...

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QED

Via Scott, John Horgan wrote a blog post following on his 1993 Scientific American article The Death of Proof. The article talked about computer-generated proofs...

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Flying Pigs Unsafe at Any Speed

Take a moment and imagine a flying pig. Do you see a pig with tiny wings lazily guiding along. But pigs are not particularly slow animals as anyone has seen a pig...

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Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Last weekend I saw the documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. Pulitzer, as you probably know from the prize named after him, was a major newspaper publisher...

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The iPhonification of Everything

So you've got an iPhone XS in Space Grey. Congrats, so do 20 million other people. Maybe you have different cases but otherwise the hardware in all these phones...

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An Immerman-Szelepcsényi Story

As a grad student in the late 80's I had the opportunity to witness many great and often surprising theorems in computational complexity. Let me tell you aboutnondeterministic...

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Phish Before Turkey

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published a story Phishing Scheme Targets Professors’ Desire to Please Their Deans — All for $500 in Gift Cards. TheFrom...

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Machine Learning and Wind Turbines

My daughter Molly spent six weeks on an environmental program in China last summer. When she got back she had to do a report on machine learning and wind turbines...

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The Cost of Privacy

Billboard at 2019 CES Computer scientists tend to obsess about privacy and we've had a privacy/security debate for decades now. But now machine learning has...

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Search versus Decision

Shockingly I've never done a post on search versus decision, one of the more interesting dualities in complexity. In short: Decision: Is there a needle in the haystack...
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