Monday, August 22, 2022

20 Years of the Computational Complexity Weblog

Birthday Cake

first posted on this blog twenty years ago today, still the oldest and longest running weblog in theoretical computer science, possibly in all of computer science. In those twenty years we've had nearly 3000 posts and over 23,000 comments and 10,000,000 page views. Bill Gasarch joined me officially as a co-blogger over 15 years ago on March 30, 2007. 

We've seen major results in computational complexity but the biggest challenges remain, in particular major separations of complexity classes. We've also had a front row seat to a computing revolution with  the growth of cloud and mobile computing, social networks connecting us for better or for worse, and incredible successes of machine learning. It's almost as though we've been handed an oracle that gives us much of the goodness of P = NP while leaving cryptography intact. 

What will the next twenty years bring? We'll be watching, posting and tweeting. Hope you keep reading and commenting. 

4 comments:

  1. It's been wonderful following this since I was an undergrad. Keep it up and here's to another 20 years!

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  2. Thanks for these excellent first 30 years and Happy Birthday!

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    1. Are you a time traveler from 2032?

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  3. Congratulations on the first 20 years, and thanks for creating this wonderful source of information!

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