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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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Attribute-Efficient Learning (Guest Post by Justin Thaler)
[Editor's comment: Justin has been having quite a year; after a paper in ICS, he's recently had papers accepted to ISIT, ICALP, HotCloud, and COLT. In this guest...
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Sandel on Colbert
Taking a class from Michael Sandel was one of the highlights of my college experience. (You can sit on the lectures online, here.) Here's his latest appearance...
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A Collaborative Atmosphere
I was excited to hear that "my student"* Justin Thaler, working with Salil Vadhan and his student Jon Ullman, had a paper accepted to ICALP (Faster Algorithms for...
From The Noisy Channel
Science as a Strategy
Last night, I had the pleasure to deliver the keynote address as the CIO Summit US. It was an honor to address an assembly of CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives...
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Thanks, Yale Daily News!
Harvard's CS50 class is nicely lauded -- by a column in the Yale Daily News. First, the Harvard-centric stuff:The good news is that there
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Things Worth Reading
A blog post describing the disturbing official version of the facts in the UC-Davis pepper spray incident. This should be a link to the actual report. A post...
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Living with New Interfaces
After weeks of asking Google mail to revert to the old look, I find I no longer have that option. Similarly, I'm being forced to write this post using the new...
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Noah Iliinsky: Tech Talk on Designing Data Visualizations
Note: This post was written by Yael Garten, a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Yael joined Linkedin in 2011, where she leads our mobile analytics team. She previously...
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Data, Algorithms, and People
One of the highlights of the recent Data 2.0 Summit was a panel featuring: Alexander Gray,
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In the News this Week...
Our large data sets work on MIC is discussed in Nature Biotechnology. (Funnily, none of the us authors of the paper knew this was coming out. One of us heardGroupon...
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Congratulations to Radhika Nagpal
I'm very, very happy to report that Radhika Nagpal has been offered tenure at Harvard.Radhika works in several areas, including biologically inspired multi-agent...
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Talk at Hearst Mining....
Giorgos is on a west coast tour this week. Today he's speaking at the Berkeley EconCS seminar on our work on Groupon and Yelp. 12:30, 410 Hearst Mining. Info ...
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Video of Strata 2012 Talk on Humans, Machines, and the Dimensions of Microwork
The video of the presentation that Claire Hunsaker and I delivered on “Humans, Machines, and the Dimensions of Microwork” at Strata 2012 is now available as part...
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Data 2.0 Summit
I’ll be participating in the Data 2.0 Summit on Tuesday, April 3rd, and I hope to see some of you there. Last year, my colleague (and fellow LinkedIn data scientist)...
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The Groupon effect on Yelp ratings (Guest Post)
Giorgos Zervas discusses our recent paper (just accepted to EC).A few months ago, in a paper that eventually appeared at WSDM 2012, John, Michael and I (Giorgos)...
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Best Written Paper
Daniel Lemire pointed to an article on bad writing in science (here if you care to see, not CS-specific), which got me to thinking: do we (in whatever subcommunity...
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