Sources / Boaz Barak (Harvard / OpenAI)
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Lecture Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4WSktB5Ni0 Authors’ Intro Hanjing: I’m a Junior studying Applied Mathematics & CS. I’ve worked on research utilizing LLMs and ML in a plethora of fields, including sentiment analysis, code generation, natural language processing,…
For a very long time, my favorite activity was to sit and think about mathematical questions. Staring at a blank sheet of paper, trying to grasp in my mind abstract concepts, bouncing ideas off colleagues and students. There is nothing quite like the feeling that you are explo…
As part of Mind-IL.- Israel’s Science and Academia Week (which also is around the Israeli election) there would be a special conference in honor of Michael Rabin with some fantastic lecturers.
I’ve recently been rereading Steven Levy’s “Hackers” with my daughter. Levy describes how Brautigan’s 1967 poem “All watched over by machines of loving grace” was inspiring to the California “Hardware Hackers” of the 1970s and organizations such as Community Memory. In 2026, t…
[Loosely based on a lecture I gave in the recursive conference with the same title. Don’t take “2030” literally¹—it could also be 2035 or 2040. As always, opinions are my own and do not represent OpenAI or Harvard.] It is quite possible that AI will usher in a golden age for h…
[Guest post by Amir Shpilka and Irit Dinur] https://www.ias.edu/math/events/celebrating-100-years-avi-70-csdm-30 The Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics is pleased to announce a conference celebrating Avi Wigderson’s 70th birthday and retirement, together with…
[Guest post by Sam Hopkins] We invite groups of interested researchers to submit workshop proposals for FOCS 2026 by July 31, 2026. The FOCS 2026 workshops provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important research questions, directions, and challenges in the fiel…
This is a linkpost for my Harvard Crimson op-ed for its commencement issue. I will not reproduce the whole text here, but my advice to the class of 2026 is in the following parts: My advice for the Class of 2026 is to embrace AI as a technology, but treat it critically as citi…
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