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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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Fall Jobs Post 2024
In the fall, I write a jobs post predicting the upcoming CS faculty job market and giving suggestions and links. In the spring I used to crowdsource a list of where...
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Favorite Theorems: Gradient Descent
September EditionWho thought the algorithm behind machine learning would have cool complexity implications?The Complexity of Gradient Descent: CLS = PPAD ∩ PLSJohn...
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LeetCode and AI
I often do LeetCode problems for fun. This site mainly provides short coding problems for students and others to train for the kinds of question that come up in...
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Embracing the Future of Manufacturing
Last week I walked around the International Manufacturing Technology Show with 89,000 other participants at the McCormick Center in Chicago. I went to see how AI...
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Natural Proofs is Not the Barrier You Think It Is
If there's a position where I differ from most other complexity theorists it's that I don't believe that natural proofs present a significant barrier to proving...
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Favorite Theorems: Parity Games
August EditionA quasipolynomial-time algorithm for a long standing open problem. Yes, we have two of them this decade.Deciding Parity Games in Quasi-polynomialCristian...
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My Quantum Summer
Rendering of PsiQuantum's facility in Chicago I wasn't looking for quantum this summer but it found me. At various events I ran into some of the most recognized...
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The Levin Translation
Earlier this summer I attended a Celebration for Leonid Levin who recently turned 75. To prepare my talk I wanted to go back to Levin's 1971 two-page Russian masterpiece...
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Favorite Theorems: Random Oracles
July EditionThis months favorite theorem is a circuit result that implies the polynomial-time hierarchy is infinite relative to a random oracle, answering an open...
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Complexity in Michigan
Invited Speaker Nutan Limaye, Conference Chair Valentine Kabanets,2024 PC Chair Rahul Santhanam, myself, 2025 PC Chair Srikanth Srinivasanand 2025 Local Arrangements...
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The Story of Shor's Algorithm
The quantum factoring algorithm of Peter Shor (FOCS 1994, SIAM Review 1999) turns thirty this year. Before his algorithm, quantum computing lacked the killer app...
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Favorite Theorems: Extracting Ramsey Graphs
June EditionTwo decades ago, I named the recently departed Luca Trevisan's paper connecting extractors to psuedorandom generators as one of my favorite theorems...
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Why is called the Turing Award (revisited)?
Avi Wigderson gave his ACM Turing Award lecture last week, and instead of telling his own story, he focused on Alan Turing and his influence on complexity. If you...
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E versus EXP
Why do we have two complexity classes for exponential time, E and EXP?First the definitions:E is the set of problems computable in time \(2^{O(n)}\).EXP is theMIP...
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Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)
Complexity theorist Luca Trevisan lost his battle to cancer yesterday in Milan at the age of 52. A terrible loss for our community and our hearts go out to hisTCS4All...
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Rethinking Hueristica
I've argued that more and more we seem to live in an Optiland, a computational utopia where through recent developments in optimization and learning we can solve...
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Favorite Theorems: Algebraic Circuits
Most of my favorite theorems tell us something new about the world of complexity. But let's not forget the greatest technical challenges in our area: proving separations...
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The Godzilla Moment
On the plane earlier this week I got around to watching the Academy Award winning movie Godzilla Minus One, one of the best monster movies I've seen set in Japan...
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Double Digit Delights
It started with a post from Fermat's Library. 132 is the sum of all the 2-digit numbers made from its digits. It is the smallest such number. pic.twitter.com/hrByAXbr51...
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