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Barney the Evil Dinosaur

This is an old story from before I had a blog, but one of my favorite on when technology goes bad. In the late 90's, the undergraduate CS coordinator at the time... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 13, 2012 at 02:21 PM

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Competition

A few people have asked me my opinions on Oded Goldreich's essay On Struggle and Competition in Scientific Fields. I read through Oded's essay I expected to highly... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 6, 2012 at 04:38 PM

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Why do we have awards?

You have a month to get in your nominations for the Donald E. Knuth Prize and the SIGACT Distinguished Service Award. Why do we have these awards and others like... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | February 1, 2012 at 03:24 PM

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Ernst Specker (1920-2011)

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From Computational Complexity | January 25, 2012 at 02:20 PM

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What should we do?

Time for a post by tweet request. Is a wave of action against big publishers' practices brewing?gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/els Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 23, 2012 at 02:31 PM

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The Information Flood

Twitter, Facebook, Google+. Information now comes to us as a faucet. If you don't drink it all it disappears forever. Try to find status updates and tweets from... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 16, 2012 at 02:29 PM

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Being Random and Trivial in Dagstuhl

This week I'm at the Computability, Complexity and Randomness workshop at Dagstuhl in Germany. This meeting brings together two groups, complexity theorists and... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 12, 2012 at 06:42 PM

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Starting the Year with Turing

This week I was in Boston for the Joint Math Meeting, a combined meeting of the AMS, MAA and a couple of other three-letter math societies with 7000 of my closest... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | January 6, 2012 at 02:22 PM

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Complexity Year in Review 2011

Result of the Year goes to the new bounds on Matrix Multiplication by Andrew Stothers and Virginia Vassilevska Williams. It's not every year that we see progress... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | December 29, 2011 at 08:41 PM

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Game Changers

Two announcements on Monday connected to my two Alma Maters mark the changing face of universities. New York City chooses Cornell and the Technion to create new... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | December 22, 2011 at 02:02 PM

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Algorithmic Driving

In my post last week, my commentors took me to task on my prediction that cars will drive us in ten years. Some thought Americans would wise up and learn to love... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | December 16, 2011 at 03:46 PM

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A Great Time to be a Computer Scientist

Ask your friends if they'll be driving an electric car in ten years. The answer: No, cars will be driving us. Today is the 105th anniversary of the birth of computing... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | December 9, 2011 at 01:16 PM

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Probability

On Saturday, Terrence Fine gave a talk on probability at a workshop at Northwestern. Before the talk he asked who thought probability was subjective (an individual's... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | December 5, 2011 at 02:50 PM

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The Death of Complexity Classes?

In the 2011 Complexity proceedings there are three papers that analyze complexity classes, Ryan Williams' great paper on ACC, Russell Impagliazzo's paper on average... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 28, 2011 at 02:54 PM

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The Jobs Bio

I just finished the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs. Seems like everyone in the blogosphere has analyzed every sentence in the book, so I won't do that.... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 21, 2011 at 02:10 PM

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Short Bits

Because some things are too long to tweet and too short for their own blog post. What's the algorithm for the perfect sushi? Enjoy it with some cool refreshing... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 18, 2011 at 02:21 PM

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Penn State

Take the state of Pennsylvania and draw the two diagonals. Where they cross is the small town of State College, home of the Pennsylvania State University. I first... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 14, 2011 at 02:55 PM

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Making Money the (Computationally) Hard Way

Digital cash systems have come and gone but Bitcoin seems to be doing okay. By request I am giving a lecture about Bitcoin in my crypto class. Most of the material... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 9, 2011 at 05:51 PM

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The Annual Fall Jobs Post

For these looking for an academic job in computer science next year, best to start on the jobs pages of the CRA and the ACM. Both lists seem long this year, perhaps... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 7, 2011 at 02:01 PM

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Journals

What is the purpose of an academic journal? To provide a permanent vetted record of a specific research endeavor. The ways we communicate scientific research... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | November 3, 2011 at 02:41 PM