From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
This Sunday’s NYTimes had an article on Eliyahu Rips who just just passed away at 75. He was an Israeli mathematician known for his research in geometric group...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | September 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Santosh Vempala is the chair of this FOCS 2024 conference. Here is the schedule of the talks. And in our next section are the accepted papers with links so you...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | August 22, 2024 at 09:50 AM
Math problems get solved from time to time. Today I wonder if they are solved the way we guessed they were going to be solved? For example do most feel that P vs...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | August 13, 2024 at 09:50 AM
The Fulkerson prize is given to: outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics and is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS)...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 26, 2024 at 03:10 PM
Professors Yin Tat Lee and Thomas Rothvoss are faculty at the Allen School of the University of Washington. Lee has the A.W. Tucker Prize that recognizes the best...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 16, 2024 at 09:43 AM
Foundations of Computer Science 2024 is coming this fall: October 27-30, 2024 at Wolf Point Plaza, Chicago. A Bit of History The cover of the FOCS proceedings is...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 12, 2024 at 08:46 AM
Sadly Gordon Bell died May 17 at the age of 89, see this. Bell died in Coronado, California from pneumonia. He was a true visionary in the world of computing who...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | July 8, 2024 at 09:21 AM
It seems like we’ve been noticing 34 everywhere we look lately, whether it’s on billboards, in phone numbers, or even inside fortune cookies. Is it all just a coincidence...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | June 1, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Bob Henderson is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Like other reporters he also has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Rochester, an MFA...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 22, 2024 at 08:24 AM
James Harris Simons just passed away—he preferred Jim so we will use that here. I know that there will be here articles, posts, and special places to read about...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 11, 2024 at 01:08 PM
The organizers of a conference on this topic is on July 3-5, 2024 at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland are: Wojciech Szpankowski the Director of the Center...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 9, 2024 at 12:16 PM
This summer DIMACS will hold an advanced workshop for graduate students in complexity theory. It is on July 29 till August 1. The organizers are: Lijie Chen, Roei...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 6, 2024 at 08:47 AM
As we know, the last few days, have been tough times for certain groups of students at our universities. The groups have rioted, were then arrested by police, and...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | May 3, 2024 at 01:01 PM
Alice says “How long is forever?” “Sometimes just one second.” Replies the White Rabbit Tuesday is a special day for the New York Times—since it always contains...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | April 27, 2024 at 08:44 AM
Richard Feynman and Gian-Carlo Rota worked on different parts of science during their separate careers. Feynman of course was one of the most important scientists...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | April 23, 2024 at 08:12 AM
Peter Gerdes is a mathematician working in computability theory a.k.a. recursion theory, a branch of mathematical logic studying what computers (aka Turing machines)...rjlipton From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | April 19, 2024 at 03:52 PM
The present value of working on conjectures… Anil Nerode of Cornell University has served over sixty years—he’s believed to be the longest such faculty member in...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | March 8, 2024 at 04:07 PM
A feature in the current AMS Notices issue highlighting women in mathematics Marie-Françoise Roy is a French mathematician, emerita of the Institute for Mathematical...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | February 23, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Really old ones, in this case Ben Cohen writes the “Science of Success” column for The Wall Street Journal. It is about what makes people, teams and ideas work...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | February 18, 2024 at 12:16 AM
More than just stopping carelessness Sholto David is featured in this past Tuesday’s New York Times Science section for his work on cheating in papers on medical...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | February 11, 2024 at 12:57 AM