The following is a special contribution to this blog from Christos Papadimitriou, C. Lester Hogan Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Christos co-organized the Simons Institute Visions on the Theory of Computing Symposia, which was sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) this past May. Christos provides a retrospective look at each presentation from the Symposium below. You can also view all of the presentations here. “What Should a Computational Theory of Cortex Explain?” Leslie Valiant, Harvard University. Valiant started by remembering two neuroscience pioneers: Ramon y Cajal, who admired data and derided theory (except in physics); and David Marr […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for June 28th, 2013
