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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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FOCS/STOC and Asymmetry
I had a funny conversation with Madhu Sudan yesterday, with him relaying an idea he said he heard from Umesh Vazirani (and perhaps the trail goes on further from...
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Harvard Financial Aid
This post will talk about Harvard's financial aid program, and why it's a perfectly good thing to give money to Harvard, despite what you might read in the New.I...
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Conference Reviews
I promised at some point to get back to discussing the reviewing process for two conferences I am currently on the PC for, NSDI and LATIN. Since I happily just...
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ICS Papers Announced
As pointed out many places, the paper for the (strangely named) new theory conference Innovations in Computer Science are out, with the list here and list withsurvey...
From The Noisy Channel
Tuning in to Google Music Search
With all of the activity around e-books last week, you might think that the online world wasn’t paying attention to the media category most transformed by the Internet...
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Ranking Networking Conferences
I'm curious if various readers out there would be willing to offer their ranking of networking conferences. The issue has come up in some conversations recently...
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HCIR 2009: Human-Human Interaction
On Friday, I had the privilege of seeing just how much the annual Workshop on Human-Computer Information Retrieval has grown up since I conceived it in the summer...
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Google Experimenting With Social Search
Google may be an also-ran in the social networking market with its Brazil-centric Orkut service, but that hasn’t stopped the search giant from adding social features...
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Major (and Minor) Happenings : Gu-Yeon Wei
I'm thrilled to announce that my colleague Gu-Yeon Wei, in EE here at Harvard, received tenure. I feel this is worth a mention because:1) Strangely, people sometimes...
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Books! Books! Books!
When my daughter was born almost two years ago, I wondered if she’d grow up reading books. After all, I do most of my reading online, and increasingly find myself...
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Old References
One interesting aspect of our WSDM paper is that we have multiple references from the 1930's and 40's. It turns out our problem is related to some of the problems...
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WSDM Paper : Acceptance Rates
I'm happy to announce our paper "Adaptive Weighing Designs for Keyword Value Computation" -- by me, John Byers, and Georgios Zervas -- was accepted to WSDM 2010...
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Who Will Buy?
Recent years have witnessed dramatic changes in our price sensitivities in every genre of digital (or digitizable) content, and I’m curious (sometimes morbidly...
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Harvard Finances
For those who are interested in such things, Harvard's latest financial report appears to be available. Rumors have it that the report was made (widely) public...
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Third Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010)
I’m proud to announce that Eugene Agichtein, Marti Hearst, and Ian Soboroff have invited me to help organize the upcoming Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM...
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Welcoming Myself to CACM
I'd like to welcome myself to the Blogroll for the Communications of the ACM! My colleague Greg Morrisett suggested I get my blog into the CACM Blogroll, so asome...
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