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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Posts from FOCS (Part 1)
Justin Thaler went to FOCS, and managed to arrange for various people to write up their thoughts on various parts of the conference. So Justin is the famed Editor...
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STOC deadline extended
Due to inclement weather, the deadline for STOC submissions has been extended to Monday, November 5, at 5:00 pm EST. Check the STOC web page for more details
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WSDM 2013 Accepted Papers
The list of papers accepted to WSDM 2013 is now up. Looks like the usual fun mix of papers.
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Crimson Series on the Ad Board
The Harvard Crimson just finished a four-part series looking at the Harvard Ad Board since the reforms a couple of years ago. I must admit I didn't find the articles...
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LinkedIn at CIKM 2012
Last year, I had the pleasure of co-organizing the CIKM 2011 Industry Event in Glasgow. This year, I’m honored to be part of the CIKM 2012 Industry Event program...
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STOC 2013 Submissions
I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions:1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attentionto length and formatting...
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Giving a Teleseminar
The nice folks at Texas A&M asked me to give a teleseminar as part of their series. So instead of flying all the way to Texas to give a talk, I did so from the...
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Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call
Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs! Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp...
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HCIR 2012: A Personal Report
Human-computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study of information retrieval techniques that integrate human intelligence and algorithmic search to help people...
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Allerton Panel
This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website). Hard to believe it's been around that long. I think my first...
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Harvard CS Is Hiring
Tenure Track Position Open. Here's the official blurb:Tenure-track Position in Computer ScienceThe Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks...
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Office Hours at Cambridge Brewing Company
I’ll be in Cambridge, MA this Thursday and Friday for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2012). Hope to see many...
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HCIR 2012 Symposium: Oct 4-5 in Cambridge, MA
It’s the event you’ve been waiting for: the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval! HCIR 2012 will take place October 4th and 5th...
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Student Bragging....
Always worth bragging about my students...Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Failure Probability" (with me, Michael...
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LinkedIn Presentations at RecSys 2012
LinkedIn showed up in force at the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012)! Here are the slides from all of our presentations. Daniel...
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RecSys 2012: Beyond Five Stars
I spent the past week in Dublin attending the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012). This young conference has become the premier...
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By the Numbers
Pretty much matching my predictions....My graduate course has 50 enrolled right now, fairly close to 50-50 between undergrads and grads.Salil's introductory complexity...
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Happiness Is...
NSF saying yes to your grant... (Isn't that one of the lyrics?)Once again, thanks to the NSF, I get to remain in business* for the next 3-4 years or so. (Arguably...
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Content, Connections, and Context
This is keynote presentation I delivered at the Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, held as part of the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender...
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