You say Carmina I say Carmana
You say Burina I say Burana
Carmina, Carmana
Burina, Burana
Let's Carl the whole thing Orff

and that's a wrap for Foundations of Algorithms 2024! (Though the annual song release is still to come...)

Today is exciting! I’m teaching complexity theory and reductions to first-semester CS students… it’s always a fun show of what lies ahead.

Expert mathematicians going cheap!

Best part of my visit (along with some fun talks at #USydCompSci

“There is a way to expand tertiary education and research while reducing our reliance on international students: more government funding. This won’t come cheap. It will also require political courage, which seems to be in relatively short supply”

Oops. Nuked my boot drive. I hope I didn’t have anything important on there 😭

Jane Street just released a mobile game?

We need solutions to protect victim-survivors that aren't a route to censorship. This statement summarizes well the pitfalls of client-side-scanning solutions and better paths forward.

Y’all these Columbia radio WKCR journalists. Brave, compelling, professional, and even-keeled reporting. I am in awe.

Remind me never to try adding VFX to my lectures again… even if it would help a demo.

I am revisitng lattice-based cryptography today, sharing two great resources that I am using:

- Lectures by Silverman: youtube.com/playlist?list=…
- Paper on cryptanalysis by joseph and Shaanan Cohney: eprint.iacr.org/2023/032.pdf

Initial list of talks/contributions is now up on recapworkshop.online! Register for ReCAP :)

Poster made by our multi-talented co-organizer Leah Rosenbloom

Perfect day to be speaking at UNSW Computing!

The shortest vector to a pass?

DP25 EOI applicants: tomorrow all lead CIs will receive an email with their outcomes and all applicants will be able to get their results in RMS. Due to the volume of applications, emails may be staggered throughout the day.

Stay tuned for an update.

Exciting to be in India speaking on AI Ethics as part of the @engunimelb delegation.

Ross Anderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.

Good talk, but something in that formal specification seems a little off…

Dear University staff, reducing departmental costs and saving you time is important to us. That's why we insist you use a travel booking system that overcharges us and operates less effectively for you than a basic google search.