Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 …
From My Biased Coin
FCRC Continued
I've been enjoying FCRC; of course, I like large conferences where lots of people show, as long as they're run well. Rooms have been pretty full at the talks,...
From The Noisy Channel
Winning the War for Software Engineering Talent
The war for talent. It’s the latest metaphor for the challenge that tech companies face as excitement is building in Silicon Valley again. Well, not really — McKinsey...
From My Biased Coin
Harvard CS Hires (2011 Edition)
At FCRC, I'm getting asked a lot about hiring. Our hiring season still isn't quite yet finished, but I'm going to go ahead and announce three new faculty who will...
From My Biased Coin
FCRC : Awards Banquet
I got to FCRC a little early to attend the ACM Awards Reception and Banquet. (Les Valiant nicely put my name on a list.) For more on the awards you can also go...
From My Biased Coin
Justin's Poster at FCRC
Justin Thaler, a student I'm advising (or, quite arguably, the other way around), will be at the poster session for STOC, ready to talk about a bunch of his currently...
From The Noisy Channel
I
If you Google [relevance theory], you’ll discover this Wikipedia entry about a theory proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson
From My Biased Coin
Deletion Channel Pointer : Kanoria and Montanari
For those half a dozen of us in the world who care about the deletion channel (and perhaps I'm overcounting), I'm a bit late in pointing to the now available extended...
From My Biased Coin
Annual Facing the Reviews
Teaching reviews for spring (Algorithms and Data Structures) came in today; time to face the music once again.Actually, this year, my numbers were up substantially...
From My Biased Coin
NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)
As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disallow teaching. So I was please...
From The Noisy Channel
Going Public
What a day! I’ve been excited about LinkedIn from the moment I joined — and for several years before that — but today has been a unique experience. I hope our celebration...
From My Biased Coin
Serving Non-Majors in CS Classes
At the end of the year, I gave a short in-house presentation highlighting some aspects of the state of CS at Harvard. In gathering data, one thing that struckDavid...
From My Biased Coin
Daily Updates
Getting slowly back into blogging, some happenings from the day.I've gotten a couple of nice notes from students saying they learned a lot from my class this semester...
From The Noisy Channel
In Search Of Structure
A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a summit that Greylock Partners organized for its portfolio companies at LinkedIn to discuss the power of data. Invited...
From My Biased Coin
Back to Blogging
I've given my final, and have grades ready to submit. The semester is over! Over the summer I may do some blogging again, as I may have time for it. I was noticing...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR 2011!
As regular readers know, I’ve been co-organizing annual workshops on
From The Noisy Channel
CFP: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing
Pankaj Mehra and I are guest editors for an upcoming special issue of
From My Biased Coin
Harvard CS -- Growth in Women Majors
Some good news for us. With the growth in our introductory course, more women are declaring Computer Science as their concentration. And we seem to be growing...
From The Noisy Channel