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Last updated about 21 hours ago

Spreading the Gospel of Theoretical Computer Science to an Omega(1) Fraction of Humanity: My Trevisan Award Acceptance Speech at STOC

about 21 hours ago

Take that, Shtetl-Optimized haters of the world With longtime friend and colleague...

50 Years of Aumann’s Agreement Theorem

1 day ago

One of the most popular posts in this blog’s history was Common...

My response to the White House executive order on QC

6 days ago

I’ve been getting emails from journalists asking me to comment on the...

Bipartite matching is in NC!

7 days ago

Since I’m a good mood today—at a beautiful science camp with my...

Never trust a T-Rex

10 days ago

In 2024, at the same time as I was being called a...

On hope

27 days ago

The comments on my previous post, on recent AI breakthroughs in solving...

Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance

about 1 month ago

As most readers have presumably heard by now, Paul Erdös’s Unit Distance...

No more NYT cooperation: my dog-rape red line

about 2 months ago

Over the years, I’ve written two op-eds for The New York Times...

The Trevisan Award and the Decimal Digits of Powers of 2

about 2 months ago

WHOA … I’ve won the inaugural Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work...

Will you heed my warnings NOW?

2 months ago

Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy...

Three greats who we’ve lost

2 months ago

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (1934-2026) won the 1980 Turing Award for...

Before we start on quantum

3 months ago

Imagine that every week for twenty years, people message you asking you...