Update (April 19): Apparently a bug has been found, and the author has withdrawn the claim (see the comments). For those who don't yet know from their other social media: a week ago the cryptographer Yilei Chen posted a preprint, eprint.iacr.org/2024/555, claiming to give a polynomial-time quantum algorithm to solve lattice problems. For example, it…
MIT Professor Emeritus Frederick R. Hennie III died on Oct. 23 at 90 years old. A longtime executive officer for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Hennie's facility for programming languages and databases and his careful approach to highly complex systems made him a valued co-worker and advisor to multiple department heads.
In an insightful interview with HT digital, Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme, VSE s Executive Vice Dean, provided valuable insights into various aspects of the school.