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Held Prize call for nominations (+ call for postdocs)

2 days ago

Here at the National Academy of Sciences, it seems that my first...

Announcing BQP Partners: my and my brother’s new angel-investing venture

3 days ago

As I’ve written before, these past couple years I’ve often felt like...

Happy 250th!

9 days ago

I’m at the New Jersey shore with family and friends, where we’ve...

An American privacy emergency: Guest post from Cynthia Dwork et al.

11 days ago

Scott’s foreword: Cynthia Dwork is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at...

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

15 days ago

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

50 Years of Aumann’s Agreement Theorem

15 days ago

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

My response to the White House executive order on QC

20 days ago

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

Bipartite matching is in NC!

21 days ago

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

Never trust a T-Rex

24 days ago

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

On hope

about 1 month ago

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

Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance

about 2 months ago

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

No more NYT cooperation: my dog-rape red line

2 months ago

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