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From Turing Machines to Blackholes and Neurons” – guest post by Chi-Ning Chou", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/12/20/mini-course-on-what-is-computation-from-turing-machines-to-blackholes-and-neurons-guest-post-by-chi-ning-chou/", "published_at": "2021-12-20T18:23:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2a1-baa7-72b2-a8ea-59e67adaf6ae", "title": "Call for talk nominations – HALG 2022", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/12/15/call-for-talk-nominations-halg-2022/", "published_at": "2021-12-15T15:00:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2a1-baa7-72b2-a8ea-59e67b49cb6d", "title": "An alarming trend in K-12 Math Education", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/12/03/an-alarming-trend-in-k-12-math-education/", "published_at": "2021-12-03T16:00:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2a1-baa7-72b2-a8ea-59e67b800418", "title": "New Quantum Science and Engineering PhD Program", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/11/08/new-quantum-science-and-engineering-phd-program/", "published_at": "2021-11-08T15:43:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2a1-baa7-72b2-a8ea-59e67c7ec7b9", "title": "Opportunities at Harvard!", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/10/20/opportunities-at-harvard/", "published_at": "2021-10-20T20:01:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2a1-baa7-72b2-a8ea-59e67d7b27cc", "title": "Nominate papers to SIGACT Research highlights", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/09/23/nominate-papers-to-sigact-research-highlights/", "published_at": "2021-09-23T12:41:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2a1-baa7-72b2-a8ea-59e67dd2dc63", "title": "Summer course on algorithmic fairness", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/09/07/summer-course-on-algorithmic-fairness/", "published_at": "2021-09-08T02:52:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd46506ac00f", "title": "RANDOM/APPROX conference", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/08/16/random-approx-conference/", "published_at": "2021-08-16T22:20:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd4650a809b8", "title": "Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 2 of 2", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/08/11/replica-method-for-the-machine-learning-theorist-part-2-of-2/", "published_at": "2021-08-11T16:06:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd465157b782", "title": "Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 1 of 2", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/08/11/replica-method-for-the-machine-learning-theorist-part-1-of-2/", "published_at": "2021-08-11T15:00:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd4651847c68", "title": "ITC 2021: Call for participation (guest post by Benny Applebaum)", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/07/02/itc-2021-call-for-participation-guest-post-by-benny-applebaum/", "published_at": "2021-07-02T13:08:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd4652004db7", "title": "STOC feedback and TCS Wikipedia (guest post by Clément Canonne )", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/06/25/stoc-feedback-and-tcs-wikipedia-guest-post-by-clement-canonne/", "published_at": "2021-06-25T14:38:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd4652627c1d", "title": "Machine Learning for Algorithms – virtual workshop", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/06/14/machine-learning-for-algorithms-virtual-workshop/", "published_at": "2021-06-14T13:29:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd4653393eb7", "title": "Causality and Fairness", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/06/11/causality-and-fairness/", "published_at": "2021-06-11T20:42:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd4653c17101", "title": "New seminar series in Simons Institute", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/06/07/new-seminar-series-in-simons-institute/", "published_at": "2021-06-07T18:18:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd4654bcb1cc", "title": "Workshop on Local Algorithms (Guest post by Ronitt Rubinfeld)", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/05/19/workshop-on-local-algorithms-guest-post-by-ronitt-rubinfeld/", "published_at": "2021-05-19T17:56:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2b5-a37b-70b8-8abe-bd465528e1da", "title": "STOC Test of time award", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/05/11/stoc-test-of-time-award/", "published_at": "2021-05-11T18:28:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4ce9-7002-95ba-4c09502a91c4", "title": "ALT Highlights – Equilibrium Computation and the Foundations of Deep Learning", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/30/alt-highlights-equilibrium-computation-and-the-foundations-of-deep-learning/", "published_at": "2021-04-30T14:05:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991a7db9863", "title": "Google Research Workshop on Deep Learning Theory", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/27/google-research-workshop-on-deep-learning-theory/", "published_at": "2021-04-27T18:55:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991a7e383b5", "title": "Towards a Theory of Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: guest lecture by Sham Kakade", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/24/towards-a-theory-of-generalization-in-reinforcement-learning-guest-lecture-by-sham-kakade/", "published_at": "2021-04-24T14:56:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991a7ec12fb", "title": "TCS Women Rising star nominations", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/23/tcs-women-rising-star-nominations/", "published_at": "2021-04-23T15:10:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991a840b0e9", "title": "TCS summer school – call for TAs", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/06/tcs-summer-school-call-for-tas/", "published_at": "2021-04-06T17:32:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991a8dd4072", "title": "Natural Language Processing (guest lecture by Sasha Rush)", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/03/natural-language-processing-guest-lecture-by-sasha-rush/", "published_at": "2021-04-03T14:37:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991a99bbd39", "title": "Inference and statistical physics", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/02/inference-and-statistical-physics/", "published_at": "2021-04-02T15:04:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991a9db449f", "title": "Robustness in train and test time", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/04/01/robustness-in-train-and-test-time/", "published_at": "2021-04-01T23:14:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991aa568a5d", "title": "New summer school in TCS", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/03/29/new-summer-school-in-tcs/", "published_at": "2021-03-29T14:57:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e2c8-4cec-701c-8943-8991aae649a1", "title": "Unsupervised Learning and generative models", "url": "https://windowsontheory.org/2021/02/24/unsupervised-learning-and-generative-models/", "published_at": "2021-02-24T23:21:58+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

CS 2881 Fall 26: Lecture 1: Introductionoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Math after AIoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Michael Rabin Memorial Conferenceoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2026
All Watched Overoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2026
It’s 2030 and we fucked up. How did it happen?original ↗
13 Jul 2026
Celebrating 100 Years: Avi 70 + CSDM 30 (June 14-18, 2027)original ↗
30 Jun 2026
Call for workshop proposals: FOCS 2026original ↗
17 Jun 2026
AI is a Meteor. Don’t be a Dinosaur.original ↗
30 May 2026
The state of AI safety in four fake graphsoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2026
Mass surveillance, red lines, and a crazy weekendoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2026
Trevisan Award for Expository Workoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2026
Thoughts on Claude’s Constitutionoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
TheoryFest 2026 Call for Workshops (guest post by Mary Wooters)original ↗
20 Jan 2026

2025

Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economicsoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2025
CS 2881: AI Safetyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2025
AI Safety Course Intro Blogoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2025
Machines of Faithful Obedienceoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2025
Trevisan prize (guest post by Alon Rosen)original ↗
12 Jun 2025
Call for papers Information-Theoretic Crpytographyoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2025
Knuth prize call for nominationsoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2025
FOCS 2025 call for papers (Guest post by Clément Cannone)original ↗
19 Feb 2025
Six Thoughts On AI Safetyoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2025

2024

ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Awardoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2024
Swiss winter school on Theoretical CSoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2024
Events in honor of Luca Trevisanoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2024
LucaFest (guest post by Anindya De, Pravesh Kothari, and Madhur Tulsiani)original ↗
21 Jul 2024
FOCS test of time award: call for nominationsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2024
Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)original ↗
19 Jun 2024
Fulkerson centennial workshopsoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2024
Avi wins the Turing, TCS for alloriginal ↗
11 Apr 2024
STOC/Theory fest 2024original ↗
29 Mar 2024

2023

Emergent abilities and grokking: Fundamental, Mirage, or both?original ↗
23 Dec 2023
Letter to the Harvard Corporation re Harvard presidentoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2023
Harvard, we have a problemoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2023
Petition by CS & Math Laureates: Freedom for kidnapped childrenoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2023
Open letter to the Harvard communityoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2023
Letter to Harvard President Claudine Gayoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2023
Reflections on “Making the Atomic Bomb”original ↗
17 Aug 2023
Cartesian Cafe podcast interviews me on cryptographyoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2023
The shape of AGI: Cartoons and back of envelopeoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2023
Metaphors for AI, and why I don’t like themoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2023
The (local) unit of intelligence is FLOPsoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2023
GPT as an “Intelligence Forklift.”original ↗
19 May 2023
5 worlds of AIoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2023
Thoughts on AI safetyoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2023
TCS for all travel grants and speaker nominations (guest post by Elena Grigorescu)original ↗
30 Mar 2023
Interview about this blog in the Bulletin of the EATCSoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2023
Provable Copyright Protection for Generative Modelsoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2023
Chatting with Claudeoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2023
Theory announcements: Prizes, CFP, and moreoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2023
New in FOCS 2023: A conjectures trackoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2023
Memento and Large Language Modelsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2023

2022

AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by playing “3-dimensional chess”.original ↗
22 Nov 2022
Postdocs at Harvard!original ↗
1 Nov 2022
Swiss TCS winter school, CCC 2023 call for papersoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2022
Quick reminders: masters, postdocs, faculty, etc.original ↗
14 Sept 2022
My friend, Scott Aaronsonoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2022
Injecting some numbers into the AGI debateoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2022
Teaching circuits as the first computational modeloriginal ↗
21 Jun 2022
The uneasy relationship between deep learning and (classical) statisticsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2022
STOCial 2022: Guest post by Clément Canonne (+ TCS Women Spotlight workshop)original ↗
17 Jun 2022
Why I am not a longtermistoriginal ↗
23 May 2022
Information Theoretic Cryptography 22: Guest post by Benny Applebaumoriginal ↗
15 May 2022
Workshop on Local Algorithm 22: Guest post by Clément Canonneoriginal ↗
12 May 2022
HALG ’22 Call for Participation (Guest post by Keren Censor-Hillel)original ↗
6 May 2022
Philosophy of science and the blockchain: A book revieworiginal ↗
3 May 2022
Brian Conrad takes down the CMForiginal ↗
2 May 2022
A personal FAQ on the math education controversiesoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2022
TCS Women Spotlight Workshop at STOC 2022: Travel grants and call for speaker nominations. (Guest post by Mary Wooters)original ↗
10 Apr 2022
Cool projects from my crypto classoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2022
HALG 2022 Call for submissions: Guest post by Keren Censor Hilleloriginal ↗
6 Mar 2022
Call for Gödel prize nominations (guest post by David Zuckerman and Samson Abramsky)original ↗
13 Jan 2022
ITC 2022: Call for papers (guest post by Benny Applebaum)original ↗
3 Jan 2022

2021

Mini course on “What is Computation? From Turing Machines to Blackholes and Neurons” – guest post by Chi-Ning Chouoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2021
Call for talk nominations – HALG 2022original ↗
15 Dec 2021
An alarming trend in K-12 Math Educationoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2021
New Quantum Science and Engineering PhD Programoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2021
Opportunities at Harvard!original ↗
20 Oct 2021
Nominate papers to SIGACT Research highlightsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2021
Summer course on algorithmic fairnessoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2021
RANDOM/APPROX conferenceoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2021
Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 2 of 2original ↗
11 Aug 2021
Replica Method for the Machine Learning Theorist: Part 1 of 2original ↗
11 Aug 2021
ITC 2021: Call for participation (guest post by Benny Applebaum)original ↗
2 Jul 2021
STOC feedback and TCS Wikipedia (guest post by Clément Canonne )original ↗
25 Jun 2021
Machine Learning for Algorithms – virtual workshoporiginal ↗
14 Jun 2021
Causality and Fairnessoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2021
New seminar series in Simons Instituteoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2021
Workshop on Local Algorithms (Guest post by Ronitt Rubinfeld)original ↗
19 May 2021
STOC Test of time awardoriginal ↗
11 May 2021
ALT Highlights – Equilibrium Computation and the Foundations of Deep Learningoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2021
Google Research Workshop on Deep Learning Theoryoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2021
Towards a Theory of Generalization in Reinforcement Learning: guest lecture by Sham Kakadeoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2021
TCS Women Rising star nominationsoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2021
TCS summer school – call for TAsoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2021
Natural Language Processing (guest lecture by Sasha Rush)original ↗
3 Apr 2021
Inference and statistical physicsoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2021
Robustness in train and test timeoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2021
New summer school in TCSoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2021
Unsupervised Learning and generative modelsoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2021
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