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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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Assessing Computer Scientists
My colleague and frequent co-author John Byers knows that I can spend up to several hours a day actively worrying about my ranking as a computer scientist. While...
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Posts from FOCS (part 5)
[Again, edited by Justin Thaler, who organized all this. The following was written by Michael Forbes of MIT.]Title: Higher Cell Probe Lower Bounds for Evaluating...
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Computer Science Rhodes Scholar
A question we tend to get at Harvard is why students should come here to study computer science. There are lots of reasons, of course, but one thing we like to...
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Harvard Financials
Harry Lewis has had several interesting posts this month over at his blog. In particular, he discusses Harvard Magazine's recent analysis of Harvard's Annual Financial...
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Posts from FOCS (Part 4)
[Editor: In Part 4 of what now looks to be a 5- or 6-part series of reports from FOCS, second-year graduate student Ludwig Schmidt of MIT contributes a summaryhttp...
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More from Simons Institute
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the following. For #2; note that those with existing postdoc positions are eligible (the Simons people hope they'll be able to...
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Posts from FOCS (Part 3)
Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: This is Part 3 in our series of posts covering FOCS 2012. Part 4,...
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NYCE (New York Computer Science and Economics Day) Announcement
I was asked to post the following:We are pleased to announce that NYCE 2012, the fifth annual New YorkComputer Science and Economics Day, will be held in New York...
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Posts from FOCS (Part 2)
Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: First-year grad student Mark Bun of Harvard contributes a summary...
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Posts from FOCS (Part 1)
Justin Thaler went to FOCS, and managed to arrange for various people to write up their thoughts on various parts of the conference. So Justin is the famed Editor...
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STOC deadline extended
Due to inclement weather, the deadline for STOC submissions has been extended to Monday, November 5, at 5:00 pm EST. Check the STOC web page for more details
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WSDM 2013 Accepted Papers
The list of papers accepted to WSDM 2013 is now up. Looks like the usual fun mix of papers.
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Crimson Series on the Ad Board
The Harvard Crimson just finished a four-part series looking at the Harvard Ad Board since the reforms a couple of years ago. I must admit I didn't find the articles...
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STOC 2013 Submissions
I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions:1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attentionto length and formatting...
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Giving a Teleseminar
The nice folks at Texas A&M asked me to give a teleseminar as part of their series. So instead of flying all the way to Texas to give a talk, I did so from the...
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Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call
Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs! Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp...
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Allerton Panel
This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website). Hard to believe it's been around that long. I think my first...
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Harvard CS Is Hiring
Tenure Track Position Open. Here's the official blurb:Tenure-track Position in Computer ScienceThe Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks...
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Student Bragging....
Always worth bragging about my students...Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Failure Probability" (with me, Michael...
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