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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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The Press
Harvard's name, obviously, still sells newspapers. The "e-mailgate" scandal of the past few days has been appearing everywhere. I was contacted multiple times...
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Mike Smith Explains, Apologizes
Given the hubbub that arose this weekend over the issue of Harvard examining the e-mail of some of the Resident Deans, it's gratifying (if unsurprising) that this...
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Harvard Spies on E-mails
A strange offshoot of the Harvard cheating scandal -- a report in the Boston Globe that Harvard administrators decided it was OK to search through Resident Dean...
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Rankings Don't Matter (But)
Back when I started at Harvard, people would literally say things to me like, "I didn't know Harvard had computer science." Now I could just point such people here...
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Discussing STOC 2013 PC with Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum is the Program Committee Chair for STOC 2013, where papers decisions were recently announced; I served as part of the Executive Committee. Joan...
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ICALP formatting
Given the loud outcry regarding the STOC 2013 formatting, which gave you 10 double-column pages to work with (at the cost of, you know, having to turn your paper...
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Online Censorship Day and Other Links
1) Sharon Goldberg and Nick Feamster asked me to announce the following:In the tradition of CAEC, NYCE, and etc, we are holding a "Day" on online censorship at...
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Daily Show
Anyone else watching Jon Stewart making fun of Harvard w/regard to the "cheating scandal".[I need the exact wording for the punch line -- "Open Internet? Is this...
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Zachary Quinto and Cherry Jones are in Town...
Harvard had a special faculty meet-the-director-deal thing for a preview of The Glass Menagerie, playing the next few weeks at the American Repertory Theater, that...
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Ad Board Update
We've finally got an update on the Government 1310 situation. As reported by the Crimson, FAS Dean Mike Smith sent out an email Friday, where he wrote that“somewhat...
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Friday Ruminations
It's felt like a bad few weeks at Harvard.Not that anything actually BAD has happened, like an inexplicable paper rejection or some interdepartmental fight or anything...
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On My Drive in This Morning...
It would, of course, be completely inappropriate for me to write that if you're interested in illegal prescription drugs, you should go talk to Stefan Savage of...
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Auernheimer Speaks
Auernheimer -- who as I've discussed on this blog was convicted of a felony by accessing AT&T servers -- put out a statement yesterday.
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Here Comes Another One
And yet another security story -- this one titled find a bug, get expelled or something close to that in various places. I'm going to have to find out where I send...
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Aaron Swartz : Links
If you haven't done so already, today is a good day to reflect upon the life of Aaron Swartz. If you haven't heard of him or need background, you can always start...
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Government 1310 -- What's New?
So, as many of you may remember, Harvard had a rather embarrassing cheating scandal flare up at the start of the academic year, involving over 100 students. To...
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Any Good Voronoi Code Out There?
Help! I've got a wacky idea I'd like to explore (pseudo-preliminary-pre-research stage) which will require some code, namely for Voronoi diagrams. What I'd like...
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Security, Disclosure, Legality
I guess I'm late to this news, but I stumbled across the case of Andrew Auernheimer, who was convicted of one count of identity fraud and one count of conspiracy...
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No Stress
Greg Morrisett points me to this bit of silliness to start my morning: University professors have a lot less stress than most of us. Unless they teach summer school...
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