How will the encryption that protects our personal data fare against the quantum technologies of the future? Find out on this week’s episode of “The Joy of Why" with co-host Janna Levin: listen.quantamagazine.org/jow-314-s Or, read the transcript: quantamagazine.org/how-does-math-…

Last afternoon of #WoLA2024 at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing: Moses Charikar, from Stanford University, telling us about Correlation Clustering for Big Data Models!

Funda Ergun and Ravi Kumar, Ronitt's first students, greeting everyone for Ronitt Rubinfeld's 60th birthday celebration at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing #SimonsLive

Ronitt, the legend.

Watch Jordan Ellenberg's Theoretically Speaking talk, "What Does Machine Learning Have to Offer Mathematics," now captioned and viewable on our SimonsTV YouTube channel. youtube.com/live/_MkbQ38_V…

The Arthashastra, written in 300 BCE, is the first known text on economics. In 1905, it was rediscovered by the scholar Rudrapatna Shamasastry. His great-great-granddaughter is Anima Anandkumar, now a machine learning scientist at CalTech and Nvidia. quantamagazine.org/the-ai-researc…

Amazing work by AlgoBharat 👏🏼- if you want to learn more about what Algorand Foundation 🐍 is achieving in India, give them a follow 👇🏻

Too much efficiency leads to catastrophic failure, and one way to avoid this is via redundancy, e.g., error correction. From Moshe Moshe Vardi's Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Karp lecture. youtu.be/yKPWK0JIfMk

Now available on our SimonsTV YouTube channel: "Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max: Efficiency vs. Resilience" Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture Moshe Vardi (Rice University) youtube.com/live/yKPWK0JIf…

Those looking for a nice movie to watch on a Friday night need look no further than Andrew McGregor's Overview of Data Streams Algorithms, from the Sublinear boot camp. youtube.com/live/_Wu4-ZeCP…

The recording of a talk I gave at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, as part of an awesome workshop on AI and higher-level cognition, is now online! If you're interested in what LMs can learn about causality, and haven't seen our work in that space, check it out! simons.berkeley.edu/talks/andrew-l…

"What does it all mean anyway? Reimagining the study of ape communication (remote from the Ugandan forest)" Catherine Hobaiter (University of St. Andrews) youtube.com/live/2hG2J8ilq…

Next week at the Simons Institute: the Modern Paradigms in Generalization Boot Camp Tuesday, Aug. 27 – Friday, Aug. 30 Register to attend in person, watch the livestream, or view the videos before they're captioned for public distribution. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/mode…

Excited to be Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing for the program on Modern Paradigms in Generalization this Fall. Looking forward to all the workshops and interacting with the amazing set of visitors. simons.berkeley.edu/programs/moder…

Join us next week for the Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers (Part 1) Boot Camp. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/spec…

Ankur kicking off the year-long program on LLMs and Transformers at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

Gautam Goel Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Glad to see fresh faces at Simons.

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aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498 Sep 16th application deadline. UC Berkeley "seeks applicants for four tenure-track (Assistant Professor) positions and one tenured (Associate or Full Professor) position in the area of “AI, Inequality, and Society” (AIIS)...Areas of interest for the AIIS

Join us next week at the Simons Institute for a workshop on Emerging Generalization Settings. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/emer…