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In a branch of theoretical computer science, the objective is to demonstrate mathematically that no one will ever be able to solve problems. Not precisely. Not roughly.…
The people who actually create translation systems began discussing their own work in a different way around 2017. Words from the previous vocabulary, such as “alignment,” “phrase…
It’s difficult to ignore how frequently the most significant concepts in contemporary telecom originated in an unglamorous setting. A study desk with fluorescent lighting. A partially erased…
There’s a particular kind of academic paper that gets cited maybe forty times in a decade, sits behind a paywall most engineers never bother to climb over,…
The first thing you notice when you stroll through the lengthy hallways of MIT’s Stata Center in the late afternoon is how quiet it is. Everywhere you…
When someone acknowledges that they don’t completely trust the model they just built, a certain kind of silence falls in the room. The quiet is louder than…
The highlighted shelf bins and floating arrows aren’t the most bizarre features when you first enter a contemporary distribution center wearing AR smart glasses. After ten minutes…
Tuesday mornings in Simonyi 101 are particularly quiet. The listening silence of a room where forty or fifty people are making a great effort to follow a…
The majority of computer users are unaware of FOCS. They won’t be aware that every fall, a few hundred theoretical computer scientists congregate in a hotel ballroom…
The idea of eliminating randomness from a system that relies on it has an almost poetic quality. Mahdi Cheraghchi’s 2011 EPFL doctoral thesis, a 206-page document that…
On a gloomy November afternoon in Cambridge, stroll down Vassar Street and you’ll come across a structure that appears to have had a falling out with itself.…