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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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Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: Strata NY Panel on the State of Structured Search
Earlier this year, I had the privilege to moderate a panel at Strata New York 2011 on Entities, Relationships, and Semantics: the State of Structured Search. The...
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Funny E-mail of the Day
I've having some issues getting straight answers over e-mail from an administrator in some Harvard office I'm dealing with. This morning, I found the following...
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This Week, We Were Doing Security
If you look on Yelp's engineering blog (http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2011/10/output-filtering-failure.html), you'll see Yelp's VP of Engineering, Michael Stoppelman...
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Interview in Forbes: What is a Data Scientist?
Dan Woods has been interviewing a variety of folks to answer the question: “What is a data scientist?“, and I had the honor to participate in his series. Here is...
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RecSys 2011 Tutorial: Recommendations as a Conversation with the User
Last week, I had the privilege to present a tutorial at the 5th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2011). Given my passion for HCIR and...
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Lisa Randall on the Daily Show
Last night's Daily Show (link to full episode) was on fire.The first segment was focused on SCIENCE! The part with Aasaf Mandvi was simultaneously hysterical and...
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Students are Awesome(ly Productive Right Now)
What's the use of a blog if you can't brag about your students? And my students have all been doing great stuff, so I'm excited to let others know about theirarxiv...
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An Exceptional Exponential Embedding
This week in class I get to teach one of my favorite probability arguments, which makes use of a very unusual embedding. Here's a short description (for the longer...
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ITCS Review
The list of accepted papers for ITCS (Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science) is up. Some thoughts:1) I have expressed reservations in the past about ITCS...
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HCIR 2011: We Have Arrived!
If you followed the #hcir2011 tweet stream, then you already know what I have to say: the Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
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An Apple a Day
Reviewing papers for a conference is a slow, time-consuming process. Suppose you had 20 reviews due and about 4 weeks to do them. What's your approach?I take...
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John Byers on WBUR
Listening to my co-author, John Byers, streamed live on WBUR, discussing our work on Groupon. Ben Edelman is another participant in the show.Here's the link. ...
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Listen
A colleague outside theory (but inside computer science) recently brought up an interesting question with me that seemed like a possible research-level issue. LogP...
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Reading Confidence Men
My current spare time reading* is Confidence Men, Ron Suskind's book on Wall Street and the Presidency. Without "taking sides" with regard to Larry Summers, IMockingjay...
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Submissions, A Comparison
I just got my set of NSDI papers to review, and have been looking them over.One thing that immediately strikes me as I give them a first quick pass is how nice...
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Goodbye to Steve Jobs
My Mac laptop froze today. It was an unusual occurrence; I turned the machine off, and for a minute it wouldn't turn back on again. I was in a panic. Then it...
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New York Times
Our work on daily deals is mentioned and linked to in Sunday's New York Times business section. (John Byers even got a quote in!) It was also mentioned in this...
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Keeping It Professional: Relevance, Recommendations, and Reputation at LinkedIn
Last week, I delivered the following presentation at the CMU Intelligence Seminar: I had a great audience, including the department head! Of course that meant...
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