silversilkroad

As a front-end developer, I meet a lot of people who write JavaScript. The majority of them do little more than include jQuery and a few plug-ins in order to add a fancy lightbox effect or an image slider. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have Jedi-level developers who wave their hand over the keyboard and the code basically writes itself.

When you’re between those skill levels, it’s not always clear how to progress. There are many paths to expertise, but if you’re stuck in ...

Professor Patrick Winston

What if machines could think like us — comprehending social cues, visual prompts and spoken words just like a human would? For Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Professor Patrick Winston, the Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and leader of the Genesis Group at CSAIL, uncovering the true nature of human intelligence is the next grand challenge.

To solve the puzzle of how humans think, ...

By Avi Wigderson





Abstract
The
P
versus
NP
question distinguished itself as the central ques-tion of theoretical computer science nearly four decades ago. The quest
to resolve it, and more generally, to understand the power and limits ofefficient computation, has led to the development of computational com-plexity theory. While this mathematical discipline in general, and the
P
vs.
NP ...