{"id":1853,"date":"2014-06-06T12:11:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T16:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2016-12-10T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:41:43","slug":"cccs-declaration-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"CCC’s Declaration of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, the participants of\u00a0the Conference on Computational Complexity<\/a>\u00a0(CCC)—the latest iteration of which I’ll be speaking at next week in Vancouver—voted to declare their independence from the IEEE, and to become a solo, researcher-organized conference. \u00a0See this open letter<\/a> for the reasons why (basically, IEEE\u00a0charged a huge overhead, didn’t allow open access to the proceedings, and increased<\/em> rather than decreased the administrative burden on the organizers). \u00a0As a former member of the CCC Steering Committee, I’m in violent agreement with this\u00a0move, and only wish we’d managed to do it\u00a0sooner.<\/p>\n

Now, Dieter van Melkebeek (the current Steering Committee chair) is asking complexity theorists to sign a public Letter of Support<\/a>, to make it crystal-clear that the community is behind the move to independence. \u00a0And Jeff Kinne has asked me to advertise the letter on my blog. \u00a0So, if you’re a complexity theorist who agrees with the move, please go there and sign (it already has 111 signatures, but could use more).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I wish to express my profound gratitude to Dieter, Jeff, and the other Steering Committee<\/a> members for their efforts toward independence. \u00a0The only thing I might’ve done differently would be to add a little more … I dunno, pizzazz<\/em> to the documents explaining the reasons for the move. \u00a0Like:<\/p>\n

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for a conference to dissolve the organizational bands that have connected it with the IEEE, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Mathematics and the CCC Charter\u00a0entitle it, a decent respect to the opinions of theorist-kind requires that the participants\u00a0should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.<\/p>\n

We hold these truths to be self-evident (but still in need of proof), that P and NP are created unequal, that one-way functions exist, that the polynomial hierarchy is infinite…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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