ACM has just announced its awards. In particular, the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice award was given to Andrei Broder, Moses Charikar, and Piotr Indyk, for their work on Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH)! LSH has already been featured in our blog, and will likely be again 🙂 The citation says: "For their groundbreaking work on Locality-Sensitive Hashing that has had … Continue reading Congrats to ACM awards winners!
Research Life-Stories: Russell Impagliazzo
Next story on our project from Russell Impagliazzo --------------------- It was my first semester at Wesleyan University. I was shuffling down the path crossing the main lawn in front of the administrative building in a jacket that was not warm enough. I had decided to astound my German professor by actually putting in a half … Continue reading Research Life-Stories: Russell Impagliazzo
Zero-Knowledge Proofs – Inherently Flawed
Update: My calculations were only correct up to a constant. Turns out that Zero-Knowledge Proofs are flawed only on April Fools Days. 364/365 of the time ZK is still as ingenious as it ever was. ----------------------------------------------- I have mixed feelings reporting my last discovery as on one hand it is undoubtedly my greatest discovery but … Continue reading Zero-Knowledge Proofs – Inherently Flawed
Lists of Open Problems
Open problems are of course very valuable for setting research directions and pointing out current or grand challenges. I would like to point out two more recent lists of open problems that are "closer to home" for me at least.sublinear.info is a wikified List of Open Problems in Sublinear Algorithms. This one is actually a few … Continue reading Lists of Open Problems
Research Life-Stories: Bobby Kleinberg
Our project continues with Bobby Kleinberg. ------------------------------------------------------------ As an undergraduate I majored in mathematics and took only one computer science course. In fact quite a few of the mathematicians who influenced me were openly dismissive of computer science. Of course, throughout this period my brother Jon would continually talk to me about TCS — a … Continue reading Research Life-Stories: Bobby Kleinberg
FOCS 2013 – Submission Server is Open
The FOCS 2013 submission server is open, the main site is up and submission deadline is in two weeks! Please read the call for papers before submitting your paper especially as it has changed since last year. In essence, we are experimenting with less regulation on our part (as far as formatting) and more responsibility on … Continue reading FOCS 2013 – Submission Server is Open
2012 Turing to Goldwasser and Micali
Shafi Goldwasser (MIT and Weizmann) and Silvio Micali (MIT) were announced as the 2012 Turing Award winners. I am so excited! On a personal note, my first research paper was a follow-up on their work (joint with Oded Goldreich on pseudorandom functions) and they kept on inspiring my research ever since (and I’m hardly alone … Continue reading 2012 Turing to Goldwasser and Micali
Challenges in Outsourcing Computation
As applications move to cloud computing platforms, ensuring data confidentiality and integrity becomes a serious concern. Users want to ensure that even if untrustworthy systems handle their confidential data, their data cannot be disclosed. In addition, users want to ensure that computations done by the (untrusted) systems are correct.The latter problem is known as the … Continue reading Challenges in Outsourcing Computation
Research-Life Stories – Oded Goldreich (2nd post)
Oded Goldreich makes a second contribution to the Research-Life Stories Project (see the first one here): ----- How I started enjoying the process of writing technical papers (1983-4) When I was a graduate student at the Technion (1980-3), I really hated the process of writing technical papers. In retrospect, I realize that this was rooted in … Continue reading Research-Life Stories – Oded Goldreich (2nd post)
Research-Life Stories – Oded Goldreich
Our next entry on the Research-Life Stories Project is by Oded Goldreich (a second installment by Oded will be posted in a few days). ------ This collection of my research-life stories was triggered by a request of Omer Reingold to contribute to a collection of research-life stories that he intends to maintain on Windows on … Continue reading Research-Life Stories – Oded Goldreich
Windows On Theory 