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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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Allerton 2011
I woke up at an absurdly early hour this morning to get on a plane and go to the Allerton conference. I'm giving a talk this afternoon on Invertible Bloom Lookup...
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Set Competition
As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set. (See my previous...
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Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop
I'm just off a plane coming home from the Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop at Stanford. It went really well, and I really enjoyed it.I think a variety of things...
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Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)
GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth...
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Travels and Teaching
I'll be at the Beyond Worst Case Analysis workshop next week, and Allerton the week after. For each, I'll have to miss a class. I also have some other travels...
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This Week, I Am Part of an Internet Meme
My frequent co-authors John Byers, Giorgos Zervas, and I posted an extended version of a current submission to the arxiv (as people do), which showed up last Friday...
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SODA Accepts -- The Count
People in various have been noting the SODA accepts, but nobody has been talking about the numbers. I count 138 papers accepted. I can't find now how many submissions...
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Rabin's Birthday Celebration
While I was not blogging, we spent the few days before the semester started with an 80th birthday workshop for Michael Rabin. Impressively, we were able to pull...
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Blogging Again?
My thoughts that I would blog more over the summer, during academic "down time", turned out more of a fiction than I would have thought. The summer proved remarkably...
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Attention CMU Students!
As many of you know, I’m a proud alumnus of the CMU School of Computer Science
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Dream. Fit. Passion.
A few days ago, our CEO Jeff Weiner led a session at LinkedIn on how to “close” candidates — that is, how to persuade candidates to join your team once you have...
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SIGCOMM Webcast
Got a note from the ACM that SIGCOMM is being live Webcast the next few days. (I'm not in Toronto for it -- hello to everyone who is!) A simple click and I'm listening...
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Retiring a Great Interview Problem
Interviewing software engineers is hard. Jeff Atwood bemoans how difficult it is to find candidates who can write code. The tech press sporadically publishes “best”...
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Fun Links, via Google+
One fun aspect of being on Google+ is occasionally a link comes along worth further notice.The first, from David Karger, is a link to a report (by Democrats, says...
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Upcoming Information Retrieval Conferences
I hope everyone who attended the recent SIGIR 2011 in Beijing had an excellent experience. I didn’t manage to make it to that side of the globe myself, but I’m...
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Attention vs. Privacy
A major feature of the recently released Google+ is Circles, which allows you to “share relevant content with the right people, and follow content posted by people...
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Tact
Early in the week, I was excited to find out that, apparently, it was perfectly appropriate for us professors to call (at least, already graduated) students assholes...
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