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Three greats who we’ve lost

about 12 hours ago

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

Before we start on quantum

12 days ago

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

Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools

18 days ago

For those of you who haven’t seen, there were actually two “bombshell”...

Movie Review: “The AI Doc”

21 days ago

Yesterday Dana, the kids, and I went to the theater to watch...

My theoretical computer science notes from Epsilon Camp

22 days ago

Last summer, I was privileged to teach a two-week course on theoretical...

Congrats to Bennett and Brassard on the Turing Award!

about 1 month ago

I’m on a spring break vacation-plus-lecture-tour with Dana and the kids in...

On Montgomery County public magnet schools: a guest post by Daniel Gottesman

about 1 month ago

Scott’s foreword: I’ve known fellow quantum computing theorist Daniel Gottesman, now at...

Remarks at UT on the Pentagon/Anthropic situation

about 1 month ago

Last Thursday, my friend and colleague Sam Baker, in UT Austin’s English...

The ”JVG algorithm” is crap

about 1 month ago

Sorry to interrupt your regular programming about the AI apocalypse, etc., and...

Moar Updatez

about 1 month ago

To start on a somber note: those of us at UT Austin...

Anthropic: Stay strong!

about 2 months ago

I don’t have time to write a full post right now, but...

Updatez!

about 2 months ago

The STOC’2026 accepted papers list is out. It seems to me that...