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Bernard Chazelle

Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science
Princeton University

Director, Center for Computational Intractability

Unlike music, scientific work does not come with liner notes. Perhaps it should. I work in Algorithms, a field believed by some to hold the promise of a scientific revolution. If you are a believer, no need to click here. My current interests are in Natural Algorithms, with a focus on collective behavior and bird flocking.

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I used to blog at A Tiny Revolution about politics and music. Today, when I am not busy leaking America's darkest secrets to the enemy, I ingest unhealthy amounts of jazz, hip-hop, and anything penned by history's most imaginative craftsman, J.S. Bach. My top-10 Bach list will soon be up. Should you find the wait unbearable, you may seek solace here.

If you've wondered why the world has become so just, prosperous, and peaceful, that's because I've written essays to explain:

  • Why torture is wrong.  
  • Why humor is no laughing matter.  
  • Why the American left needs a new creed. See also here and here.
  • Why the American Century will end in Iraq.
  • Why the French riots were salutary and why the US media gets France all wrong.
  • Why the children in Iraq make no sound when they fall.
  • Why anti-Americanism is not what you think and why Bush was, well, you know what he was.

My Erdős-Bacon number is 5 = 2 + 3. The good folks at Cambridge University Press weren't kidding when they made me sign away the movie rights to my book.