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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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Bertinoro Day 3
Since I left, Andrew McGregor tool over and has posted a summary of day 3 on his polylogblog, which is also now added (at the top!) on the bloglist at the right...
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Bertinoro, Day 2
Bertinoro is a really beautiful city. I just felt like saying that.Today's talks: Geppino Pucci talked about Bluetooth networks, modeled as a variation of random...
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Are Links A Distraction?
Eric Andersen called my attention to a post by Nick Carr entitled “Experiments in delinkification“, in which Carr argues that links embedded in text are distracting...
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Personal News : "New Job"
Since it's more or less been publicly announced at this point, I may as well announce it here: starting July 1, I'll be the new Area Dean for Computer Scienceunlike...
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Blogging from Bertinoro
I'm here at Bertinoro (a beautiful, out-of-the-way, small town in Italy) for the 2010 version of Random GRAALS (= graphs and algorithms), a workshop that we'vestandard...
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HCIR 2010 Submission Deadlines Approaching
Just a reminder to all of you HCIR people out there that the submission deadline for the HCIR 2010 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
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Extension Results
At the start of semester, at one point I had 48 people signed up for my extension Algorithms and Data Structures course, which I said from day one would not last...
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Giving in to Student Demands
I received my student reviews today, and while I could easily post days' worth of discussions on them, suffice to say there's a non-trivial minority of students...
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Links to Look At
Matt Welsh has what he tells me is his most-read post ever about The Secret Lives of Professors. I'll help promote it here, but save my commentary for the comments...
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Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
The other day, I received a surprise package in the mail: a copy of IBM researchers David Carmel and Elad Yom-Tov’s newly published lecture on “Estimating the Query...
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Grade Inflation?
I know Harvard is supposed to be famous for its grade inflation, but that's not generally the case in my class (and, I think, for our CS classes in general). Having...
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ACM elections reminder
I was asked to remind everyone that if they want to vote on the ACM elections, the deadline is May 24th. Here is the official ACM election page. You might note...
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Elastic Lists for Faceted Search
If you like faceted search and are interested in design patterns for it, I encourage you to check out Moritz Stefaner’s work on elastic lists. Here is his description...
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Harvard News Items
Some highlights: 1) From the Crimson: "An undergraduate has been dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into online accounts of the teaching staff...
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Robobees Redux
While I intentionally try to avoid the political on this blog, I did make an exception previously when I heard that the Harvard Robobees project had made #1 onthe...
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People You May Know
I was just looking at LinkedIn and found myself pleasantly surprised by a minor UI improvement in the “People You May Know” widget: as you delete people you don’t...
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The Google Job Experiment
This is just so brilliant that I had to post it here. I’ve blogged in the past about alerting spam, but this guy took the idea to a new level, with great return...
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The Value of Experiments
Several days ago Lance wrote about "Is Complexity Math or Science?", and in that context wrote "We don't do experiments...", which has caused me to overreact.I'm...
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Another Book on Networks
Another book on networks, namely Networks: An Introduction, by Mark Newman, will be available in about a week or so. Mark is known to many in the networking community...
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