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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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Reading a Research Paper
In the category of "waste nothing", here's a handout I wrote way back when (over a decade ago) that I use for my standard graduate seminar class on How to Read. ...
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Can We Build a Distributed Trust Network?
Mathew Ingram posted an interview with Craig Newmark (the Craig of craigslist fame) in which the latter argued that what the web needs is a “distributed trust network”...
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Are Ashton Kutcher and Puff Daddy the Most Influential Twitter Users?
In a post on ReadWriteWeb, Sarah Perez summarizes “Measuring User In?uence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy“, a recent research paper by Meeyoung Cha, Hamed...
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Google-Viacom Documents
I don't blog about my work as an expert witness, but for those who are interested in such things, since I (currently) have nothing to do with the case, I can happily...
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More on SIGCOMM
The first round of SIGCOMM is pretty much done. (As usual, many reviews are still out, though the deadline has passed.) I had mentioned earlier that my firstby...
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Kindle Textbooks
I've had a couple of people point out to me that Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis (my book) is now available on Kindle...
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Is Spontaneity Overrated?
It used to be a surprise when people remembered our birthdays, but in the twenty-first century Facebook ensures that we will
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And More Fun News....
Right after Stuart Shieber sent me news on CS undergrad earnings, Harry Lewis sent me two additional links. The first is a nice Boston Globe piece on the increase...
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Good News for Computer Science Majors
Undergraduate computer science majors, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, are still getting paid well. If you don't want to be an...
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A Conflict Question
I was recently asked the following question:Suppose you're the PC chair, and someone who has submitted a paper asks you NOT to have the paper reviewed by a specific...
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Congratulations to Chuck Thacker
The news has hit the wires -- Chuck Thacker is this year's Turing Award winner.I had the great pleasure of getting to know Chuck while I worked at DEC SRC. He's...
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EC Papers Up
The list of accepted papers for EC is up. I'm happy to say that our Swoopo paper made the list. I was surprised in the acceptance letter to find that there were...
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Carousel (NSDI Paper)
The "final version" for our NSDI paper, Carousel: Scalable Logging for Intrusion Prevention Systems, is now up.Here's the main idea. In IPS systems, the logger...
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Google and Transparency
Let me preface this post with a clear disclaimer: I work at Google, but the views I express on this blog are my own personal views. Last week, Google head of webspam...
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Not All Queries Are Created Equal
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict query difficulty and performance–performance in the information...
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HCIR 2010: A Pre-Announcement
We’re gearing up to officially announce the HCIR 2010 workshop, but I wanted to give folks here a heads up, as well as to put out a call for a volunteer. The Fourth...
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SIGCOMM papers
A commenter asked me a while back to say what I thought of the SIGCOMM submissions this year. I'm finally getting around to reading and reviewing. (First round...
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Congratulations to David Johnson, Knuth Prize Winner
I'm pleased to hear that David Johnson has won the Knuth Prize for "his contributions to theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms." David has done a...
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Teaching Bloom Filters
As I finished my lecture today for my undergraduate algorithms and data structures course, after spending about half an hour explaining Bloom filters and what they...
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