Blog: Computational Complexity
Blogger Professor Lance Fortnow:
Lance Fortnow started as a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Department at Northwestern University in January of 2008. Fortnow also
has a courtesy appointment at the Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
department at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management and an adjunct
professorship at the Toyota Technological Institute–Chicago.
Rahul Santhanam continues to spread the word from FOCS
Conferences are not really about the talks, they're about socializing and gossip. Who's having an affair with whom? Who's been drinking too much? It's for answers to questions like these for which we brave jet lag, find others to teach classes for us, endure conference food&hellip.
Well, not quite. Poets and artists might gossip about such things, but scientists are on a higher plane, of course; we're beings of pure reason, are we not? The questions that concern us tend to be more of the form "Who's deserted University X for University Y?" & "Who's been spending weeks holed up in his room thinking about Conjecture Z?". And while I'm sure there are those of you who want to know more about the various research addictions triggered off by Razborov's proof of Bazzi's theorem, jobs news is probably of more general interest.
So here's what I've learned in the past week:
To find out what Lance Fortnow will be sharing next, visit his blog at: http://lance.fortnow.com/
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