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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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David Petrou Presents Google Goggles at NY Tech Meetup
Image recognition is one of those problems that has presented long-standing challenges to computer scientists, despite being taken for granted by science fiction...
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Slouching Toward Creepiness
One of the perks of blogging is that publishers sometimes send me review copies of new books. I couldn’t help but be curious about a book entitled “The Man Who...
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Blog Retrospective
I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment. Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequent and opinionatedKleinberg's...
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Doing the Right Thing? (Quick Links Edition)
From Shots in the Dark, a pointer to a new "feature" -- apparently, there's not a tweet system recording and listing books checked out from Harvard libraries. Marc...
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HCIR 2010: Bigger and Better than Ever!
Last Sunday was HCIR 2010, the Fourth Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, collocated...
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Conference/Journal Versions -- Transactions on Networking
I was recently asked to review a paper for Transactions on Networking, and noticed the following bit in the e-mail?Please note that while this paper may have had...
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Various Quick Pointers, Redux
There were many interesting things at the CRA Snowbird conference for CS chairs (which I missed...), but I haven't heard any blog-level discussion of their call...
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How's that New Job Treating You? Edition
I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended. That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1. Also nicely, from the count on the right, I'mreally...
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RATS roundup
I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS. There was a brief introduction by Chris...
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MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution
Wow. After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made an announcement...
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Various Quick Pointers
While it may not be news elsewhere, I'm certainly interested in the "local" case of Marc Hauser, the evolutionary psychologist at Harvard whose work has been "under...
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Exploring Nuggetize
I’ve been exchanging emails with Dhiti co-founder Bharath Mohan about Nuggetize, an intriguing interface that surfaces “nuggets” from a site to reduce the user’s...
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In Need of a Few Bad Papers
For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...
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STOC tutorial online
Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online. You can find them here.
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Monkey Business
I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...
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Other UK Adventures
While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge.At both places I gave my talk on our analysis of the auction site Swoopo...
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Papers to Teach This Year
This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/networks, Algorithms at the End of the...
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Back from Travels
The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel. For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily at the Computer Science. ...
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Taking Blekko out for a Spin
If you’re a search engine junkie like me, you’ve probably heard about Blekko, a search engine that has been percolating for over two years and recently launched...
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