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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Thomas Rothvoss and Lang Liu, the inaugural winners of the Trevisan Prize at Bocconi University.

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Trevisan Prize 2025 – Winners

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

2/2 Instead, pick the most efficient model, the latest GPU, and an efficient cloud data center in a low carbon location, said David Patterson, at the Simons Institute's workshop on Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies Boot Camp. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/david-...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

1/2 "Bad AI carbon footprint commandments." @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's David Patterson's "don'ts" for reducing AI's carbon footprint: don't pick the biggest model; don't pick an older GPU; don't pick a local data center. He spoke at the Simons Institute. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/david-...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

Applications are open for research fellows and senior visitors for the Fall 2026 programs on Spectral Theory Beyond Graphs, and on Pseudorandomness and High-Dimensional Expansion.

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

Join us for Mark Embree's Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture next Tuesday! Register to attend in person or view the livestream.

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

Next week at the Simons Institute, a workshop on Linear Systems and Eigenvalue Problems. Join us!

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 6d

From our friends at CLIMB:

Voleon Seminar with Ariel Procaccia
"Thinking Outside the Ballot Box"
Friday October 3rd, 2 p.m. PT
306 Soda Hall (HP Auditorium)

Details: climb.berkeley.edu/thinking-out...

Livestream: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9t...

Thinking Outside the Ballot Box | CLIMB

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

2/2 "Then...apply similar techniques to analyze dolphin vocalization and behavior," said @mit.edu's Mark Hamilton at the Simons Institute workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species IV (co-hosted with Project CETI). Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/mark-h...

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 8d

1/2 How can one make sense of dolphin vocalizations and behavior? First, "use machine learning to rediscover human words by just watching unlabeled videos of people talking about things," said @mit.edu's Mark Hamilton, speaking at the Simons Institute. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/mark-h...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 9d

Join us Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. PT for the first Karp Lecture of the year. Register to attend in person or view the livestream.

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 9d

2/2 Markus Freitag, head of Google Translate Research, spoke at the Simons Institute's workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species IV (co-hosted with Project CETI). Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/markus...

Machine Translation of Human Languages in the Age of LLMs: Is This the End of the Language Barrier?

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 9d

1/2 While in Hawaii during the pandemic, Markus Freitag realized he should take whale language translation seriously. "I really fell in love with whales. You could just lay in the water and you could hear them singing," he said at the Simons Institute. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/markus...

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Lakshmi Chandrasekaran @lakshmic.bsky.social · 20d

Here's my latest blog alert on sublinear #algorithms and #differentialprivacy in a wide-ranging conversation with @ccanonne.github.io!

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#randomness #BigData #SciComm @simonsinstitute.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au

Exploring algorithms and privacy in big data with clément canonne

In this age of identity theft and privacy invasion, could you order a bowl of chips online, without giving away your mother’s maiden name? Gathered in a local pub in Sydney, computer scientist Clém…

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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 20d

First was a whole slate of talks from the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies symposium:

Kaushik Roy - neuro-inspired algorithms and hardware www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvTd... (2/6)

Rethinking Computing with Neuro-Inspired Learning: Algorithms to Hardware

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

Next week at the Simons Institute, a workshop on Managing Memory.

Hope to see you there!

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

Register to attend, view the livestream, or access the videos before they're captioned for YouTube.

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 12d

Join us next Tuesday!

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Virtualization and the Cost of Indirection | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture

Some types of virtualization, such as virtual memory, are implemented by providing a layer of indirection between what the program sees and what the system implements. This layer of indirection is typ...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 17d

Adam Kalai (OpenAI) explores how to evaluate machine translation systems in the absence of ground-truth reference translations, focusing on the extreme case where only acoustic outputs are available, without contextual or visual grounding.

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Validation by Listening

In this talk from the recent workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species IV, Adam Kalai (OpenAI) explores how to evaluate machine translation systems in the absence of ground-truth referenc...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 17d

In his talk in our workshop with @ProjectCETI on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species, Markus Freitag surveyed the rise of LLM-driven translation and its near-human performance in high-resource languages.

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Machine Translation of Human Languages in the Age of LLMs: Is This the End of the Language Barrier?

In his contribution to the workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species IV, Markus Freitag (Google) surveyed the rise of LLM-driven translation and its near-human performance in high-resourc...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 21d

2/2 "Combining AI with local knowledge to inform how we use the models has given us the success we’ve had." Rich Williams of Coral Gardeners at the Simons Institute's workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species IV (co-hosted with Project CETI). simons.berkeley.edu/talks/rich-w...

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 21d

1/2 When the Beatles sang Octopus’s Garden, they could not have imagined real-life Coral Gardeners working with “the coral that lies beneath the waves.” Rich Williams spoke of using AI to restore coral reefs at scale at the Simons Institute's. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/rich-w...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 21d

It's not too late to catch up on the talks from the Complexity and Linear Algebra Boot Camp, happening this week.

Register to attend in person, watch the live stream, or access the talk videos before they're captioned for YouTube.

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 21d

Join us for the first Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture of 2025–26!

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 21d

Check out Senior Scientist Nikhil Srivastava's latest "Theory at the Institute and Beyond" column, about the compressed oracle method.

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Compressed Oracles and Coherent Workshops | Theory at the Institute and Beyond

Let me start with a confession. For many years, I was afraid of quantum and crypto. Quantum scared me because I didn’t know how to think about tensor products, and crypto because I couldn’t keep track...

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Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing @simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 21d

This July, the Simons Institute co-hosted, in collaboration with @projectceti.bsky.social and Oceankind, the fourth annual workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species.

Learn more: simons.berkeley.edu/news/worksho...

Workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species

This July, the Simons Institute co-hosted, in collaboration with Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and Oceankind, the fourth annual workshop on Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species....

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