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Art and Technology

Last weekend I went to one of Chicago's jewels, the Art Institute, and saw the opening of a new exhibit by Berlin-based artist Josephine Pryde entitled The Vibrating...

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Machine Learning and Complexity

  Schloss Dagstuhl by Monet by Dall-E At Dagstuhl earlier this month, I hung out for a little bit with the participants of the other seminar, Knowledge Graphs....

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Thirty Years of Dagstuhl

  Dagstuhl old-timers at the original castle I'm back at Dagstuhl for the seminar on Algebraic and Analytic Methods in Computational Complexity. My first seminar...

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The NIST Process for Post-Quantum Cryptography

Guest post by Jonathan KatzOver the past few months there have been several interesting developments in the NIST post-quantum standardization process.By way ofShor's...

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20 Years of the Computational Complexity Weblog

I first posted on this blog twenty years ago today, still the oldest and longest running weblog in theoretical computer science, possibly in all of computer science...

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Conference Modality

We have had an almost normal summer conference season, for some sense of normal. At one of those conferences I participated in an hybrid conversation about whether...

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The Godfather of Complexity

Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022 On Friday, August 29th, I was in the immigration line at an airport in Mexico. My phone rang with Bill Gasarch on the Caller ID butan...

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The Highland Park Shooting

This week I should be celebrating Mark Braverman's Abacus Medal and the Fields Medalists. Instead my mind has been focused 25 miles north of Chicago.Mass shootings...

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A Gadget for 3-Colorings

Following up on Bill's post earlier this week on counting the number of 3-colorings, Steven Noble emailed us with some updated information. The first proof that...

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The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

I don't mention it that often in this blog, but I fell in love with opera in the 90's and watch as much as I can, often fitting opera into my travels or vice-versa...

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Masks

Illinois Tech removed the last of their mandatory masking restrictions yesterday. Chicago had zero Covid deaths. Yet I still get messages like this in my twitter...

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The War and Math

During the early parts of the cold war of the 20th century, we saw two almost independent developments of computational complexity, in the west and in the thenJuris...

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Belated happy 80th, Allan Borodin!

Guest Post by Aravind Srinivasan  Allan Borodin turned 80 in 2021. This post is to belatedly wish him a very happy 80th, and to give a short personal perspective...

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A Book Break

I got the writing bug back while working on my recent CACM article and I'd like to try my hand at another book. Not sure the exact topic but something related to...

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The Beginnings of Zero-Knowledge

Wired runs this video series where topic expert explain concepts to five levels of difficulty, typically a child, teen, undergrad, grad student and expert. UCLA...

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A Failure to Communicate

The screenwriter Aaron Sorkin wrote an article on prioritizing "Truth over Accuracy". He tells stories from his movies The Social Network and Being the Ricardos...

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On the California Math Framework

Guest post by Boaz Barak and Jelani Nelson In a recent post, Lance Fortnow critiqued our open letter on the proposed revisions for the California Mathematics Framework...

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Complexity Year in Review 2021

The pandemic hampered many activities but research flourished with a number of great results in complexity. Result of the year goes toLocally Testable Codes with...

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Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible

I have a new article Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible, to mark the 1971 publications of Steve Cook's seminal paper, a month too late...

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Defending the Status Quo

When the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and the New York Post endorse your efforts, that should ring warning bells.Several members of the theory and mathematics...
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