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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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My (Positive) Apple Retail Repair Experience
I switched to Apple machines several years ago, and have been very happy with them generally.One convenience is there is an Apple store in the mall about 10 minutes...
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Women in Math (and Computer Science)
Wednesday afternoon I went to a panel organized by the Harvard Undergraduate Mathematics Association for a "Gender Gap on Math Discussion". I went both to hear...
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On the Shannon Centennial
I found in my snail mail mailbox my paper copy of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter. First, I was delighted by the news that Michelle Effros (of Cal...
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Links: HBR article on Women in STEM and AAUW Report
A latest article on bias issues for women in STEM by Harvard Business Review. A slide presentation by AAUW related to their report: Solving the Equation: The Variables...
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Double Hashing (Lueker and Molodowitch)
A subject I've grown interested in, related to multiple-choice hashing schemes, is when (and why) double hashing can be used in place of "random hashing" with an...
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Power of Randomness at Georgia Tech
I'm spending (part of) the week at "The Power of Randomness in Computation Workshop", an IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) workshop at Georgia...
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Hate EasyChair
I just typed in a nice long review on EasyChair. Yes, I prefer doing this with the online form when I'm just sitting around and have time to do a review. Apparently...
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New Heapable Subsequence Paper
In the "only a dozen people could care about this category"...About 4 1/2 years ago, I posted about a paper we had put up on the arxiv about Heapable Sequences. ...
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Stress: Competition and Ranking
One issue I keep seeing in comments here and elsewhere on this issue is that academia is very competitive, with everyone worried about their rank. In my last post...
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Stress, Continued: Jobs
Continuing from last post, I aim to focus on some of the issues related to stress in academia. Today's post will be related to stress and the nature of academic...
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Stress
I've seen lots of news and posts recently on the general theme of stress in academia. Daniel Lemire blogs about Stefan Grimm, a professor who recently committed...
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CS 50 Fair (Live)
The madness that is the CS50 Fair at Harvard is going on now. Hundreds of students demo-ing their final projects. If you can't be there, you can watchthe live...
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Yet More Good News, Harry Lewis Edition
As mentioned previously, our current Dean for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cherry Murray, will be stepping down at the end of the year.The good...
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More Good News, Eddie Kohler Edition
Continuing the good news at Harvard, word has been given that Eddie Kohler has officially been offered tenure. So we hope/expect/are excited about keeping Eddie...
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The News Is Out
Harvard Computer Science was given a sizable gift from Steve Ballmer; we're excited at the opportunity to grow this gift will provide us over the next severalthe...
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Veterans Day
Veterans Day is a federal holiday, but, at Harvard classes go on. This year, the holiday is observed for staff, but we'll be teaching.I can't easily find out when...
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Weekend Links (November 1 Edition)
A variety of links on related news.Ebola #1 (local): The HackEbola with Data website gives detail for the upcoming Harvard Hacking event in conjunction with Statistics...
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Rankings Everywhere
Like many (theoretical) computer scientists, I spent far, far too much time this weekend thinking about rankings. Well, really, it was more that I was being far...
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Welcome, Attorneys!
You might wonder why I am welcoming attorneys to the blog. Well, I happen to know that some attorneys read my blog. I know this because recently, as an expert...
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