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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...

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Venkat Guruswami
Letter from the Director, September 2025

Greetings from Berkeley, where after a very busy summer of crypto and quantum fun, we’ve just kicked off our Fall 2025 programs on Complexity and...

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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...

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Research Vignette: Cryptography and Game Theory for Blockchains
Computer Scientists Achieve ‘Crown Jewel’ of Cryptography

Erica Klarreich describes important new developments in Indistinguishability Obfuscation (iO)

Simons Institute to Participate in New NSF-Funded Foundations of Data Science Institute
Organizers’ Report: Algorithm Design, Law, and Policy Virtual Kick-Off
Letter from the Director, August 2020
Deep 'Internal' Learning — Deep Learning with Zero Examples
What Information Do the Voices of African Savanna Elephants Communicate?
This Fall at the Simons Institute
Research Vignette: The Unlikely Friendship of Lattices and Elliptic Curves
Simons Institute to Take Part in New $10 Million Project on the Foundations of Deep Learning

The Simons Institute will play a key role in a new project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons Foundation devoted to investigating the theoretical foundations of deep learning.