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Glad to announce that this Sun Aug 28, 11AM ET, we, Prof. Lenore Blum of Carnegie Mellon University, an AAAS Fellow, Noether Lecturer, Presidential PAESMIEM awardee, just to name some (see her wiki page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Blum for more info) and Prof. Mohammad Hajiaghayi of UMD plan to have a YouTube broadcast @hajiaghayi, and simultaneous broadcasts on Instagram @mhajiaghayi, LinkedIn @Mohammad Hajiaghayi, Twitter @MTHajiaghayi, and Facebook @Mohammad Hajiaghayi. We talk about life esp. regarding Blum family consisting Prof. Manuel, Lenore, and Avrim Blum (one of the most famous computer science families in the world), early history and bias against women in mathematics and computer science (e.g., Princeton University did not admit any women for Ph.D. in math until 1968), early research of crypto and pseudorandomness, intersection of Turing work and Newton work, and Consciousness and Computing, among other topics. Please join us on our simultaneous broadcasts at YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.

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Timeline for the conversation

0 Introduction

4:00 NYC: Early days

7:23 Venezuela: year “sabbatical” from school; meet Manuel; love math; become an American

30:44 Carnegie Tech: Architecture; Alan Perlis

40:35 Cambridge: Marriage, Simmons, MIT, Avrim

54:15 More MIT: math grad school

1:17:33 1968: End of Era; Year of Revolution

1:19 Berkeley

1:21:52 Accidental Activist: “Back to the Future” ( https://bit.ly/2mTMKzW ) (orig.1970’s, edited 2016)

1:30:30 Back to Research: pseudo randomness; complexity and real computation; condition #

1:47:29 Back to CMU: Women@SCS; ALADDIN, Project Olympus

1:58:05 Some discussion

2:10:21 Conscious Turing Machine ( https://bit.ly/38zAhf6; https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.13704.pdf)