Now that the sound and fury in the Open Access movement has quieted down a bit, we can revisit the arguments for open access. The basic question I would like to…
Moshe Y. Vardi
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The 14th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held last July, included a special symposium on the subject of "What is an …
Artificial Intelligence: Past and Future
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I recently attended a rather theoretical computer-science conference, and sat, as is my habit, in the front row. The …
On June 16, 1902, philosopher Bertrand Russell sent a letter to Gottlob Frege in which he argued that Frege's logical system was inconsistent. The letter launched a…
Technology Has Social Consequences
A conference paper submission constitutes privileged communication. In theory, reviewers should immediately…
Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer tells the gripping story of how…
Where Have All the Workshops Gone?
My initiation into the computing-research community was a workshop on "Logic and Databases" in 1979. I was the only …
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