"You work in an office of 100 people. One day your favorite
paper clip is stolen. You have a pretty good idea of who did it.
Your colleague Annabel tells you that she also has a pretty good
idea.
Avi
Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was named a
recipient of the 2021 Abel Prize, which he shares jointly with
László
Lovász—a former IAS visiting professor—of
Eötvös Loránd University. They are cited by the
Abel Committee “for...
In 2012, Hao Huang, Member
(2012–13) and Visitor (2013–14) in the School of
Mathematics, first learned about the sensitivity conjecture over
lunch at the Institute from Michael Saks, a Visitor
(2005–06) in the School. Speaking with
Quanta...
Machine learning — sometimes called the leading edge of
artificial intelligence — is the rapidly developing computer
technology behind self-driving cars, complex web searches, medical
and science applications, and face and speech recognition...
A $2 million donation from Eric and Wendy Schmidt will support
the launch of the Program in Theoretical Machine Learning in the
Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics. Eric
Schmidt is the Executive Chairman of Google; Wendy Schmidt
is...
