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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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Are You Hitched?
Let me preface this post by saying that this is my personal blog, and that my opinions here are not necessarily those of my employer. With that out of the way,...
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January Flying By...
I'm enjoying a relatively snow-free January, but despite the extra time I've had on my hands from not having to shovel, I've had little time for blogging. Reasons...
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Guided Exploration: Faceted Search, Backwards
Information Scent In the early 1990s, PARC researchers Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card developed the theory of information scent (more generally, information foraging)...
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ITCS, Day 2
I stopped a while by ITCS, before having to deal with other meetings. I saw fellow blogger Claire Mathieu, who told me my post on day 1 was negative. To be clear...
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ITCS, Day 1
I spent much of today at ITCS (Innovations in Computer Science) 2012, over at MIT. Justin gave an excellent talk on our work (with Graham Cormode) on Practical...
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Chernoff-Hoeffding Bounds for Markov Chains
We (Kai-Min Chung, Henry Lam, Zhenming Liu and myself) have a STACS paper on Chernoff-Hoeffding bounds for Markov chains (arxiv version here). Such bounds areLarge...
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Pointer, to Cash for Citations
I'm disturbed to find that nobody is offering to pay me large sums just to have me affiliated with them for the purposes of raising their citation count. WhatCrooked...
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Next Play!
Every year brings its own adventures, but for me 2011 will be a tough act to follow. A year ago, I’d just started
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New Year's Thanks
There are many things I'm thankful for this year. Perhaps most notably, the new year marks the halfway point of my 3-year stint as "Area Dean for Computer Science"...
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Cross-Cultural Learning Curve: Sending a Paper to Science
We decided to submit our paper on MIC and MINE to Science it's a venue that my co-authors were familiar with and very interested in applying to. I was happy to...
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Some of The Fun of Collaborating...The Other People
One of the things I enjoy most about working in algorithms is the breadth of work I get to do. And while I've worked on a variety of things, almost all have been...
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Wasted Hour(s)
Last night I was running some code for a queuing simulation related to some research I'm doing. This is the Nth time I've used this code; I wrote up the basic...
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MIC and MINE, a short description
I thought I should give a brief description of MIC and MINE, the topic of our Science paper. Although you're probably better off, if you're interested, looking...
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Congratulations to Hanspeter Pfister
Despite our really very good track record for the last decade or so, there are some people out there who remain under the misimpression that it's impossible toHanspeter...
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HCIR 2011: Now on YouTube!
The Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2011), held on October 20th at Google’s main campus in Mountain View, California...
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This Week, I Am A Scientist
This week, I am a scientist; I know this, because I have an article in Science. It's nice to have something to point to that my parents can understand. I don't...
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Consulting
As I've probably mentioned, I generally enjoy my consulting work. Besides the obvious remunerative aspects, consulting provides challenges, insights, and experiences...
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Grading
Some folks at the NSDI meeting were nice enough to say that it was nice that I was blogging again. Sadly, I've been under-the-gun busy for the last several weeks...
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Plane Work
I dislike flying, but I have a few flights coming up.I find that engaging in "real thinking" about problems while on a plane is generally beyond me. (I'm jealous...
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