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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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SODA Accepts -- The Count
People in various have been noting the SODA accepts, but nobody has been talking about the numbers. I count 138 papers accepted. I can't find now how many submissions...
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Rabin's Birthday Celebration
While I was not blogging, we spent the few days before the semester started with an 80th birthday workshop for Michael Rabin. Impressively, we were able to pull...
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Blogging Again?
My thoughts that I would blog more over the summer, during academic "down time", turned out more of a fiction than I would have thought. The summer proved remarkably...
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SIGCOMM Webcast
Got a note from the ACM that SIGCOMM is being live Webcast the next few days. (I'm not in Toronto for it -- hello to everyone who is!) A simple click and I'm listening...
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Fun Links, via Google+
One fun aspect of being on Google+ is occasionally a link comes along worth further notice.The first, from David Karger, is a link to a report (by Democrats, says...
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Tact
Early in the week, I was excited to find out that, apparently, it was perfectly appropriate for us professors to call (at least, already graduated) students assholes...
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Beyond Worst Case Analysis -- Preparing a Talk
A few months ago, Tim Roughgarden mailed me to say was putting together a little workshop on the theme of Beyond Worst Case Analysis, and would I like to be one...
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Rabin's 80th Birthday Celebration
Big announcement: We'll be having an 80th birthday conference celebration for Michael Rabin at Harvard at the end of August. Lots of great talks by big-name CS...
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SODA in Japan
I hadn't even noticed SODA was in Japan before submitting. I just figured wherever it was I'd be willing to go, as January in Boston is a fine time to be elsewhere...
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Using Google Scholar for More Than Your h-Index
The comments from the last post (thanks, David Andersen) spurred me to mention the following.I do check Google Scholar for my own work fairly regularly. Not to...
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h-index != impact
Suresh and Daniel Lemire (in Google+ posts) have pointed to the following paragraph from this blog: The sad thing is that young people have now been terrified...
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Various Goings On
I've not been a Facebook user, but I was invited to join Google+, so I set up a picture and am waiting to see what it's all about. I'm afraid that for the most...
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Odd SODA Rules, and Other Conference Paper Complaints
Suresh points out we have some strange new SODA submission rules this year: Full submissions should begin with the title of the paper, each author's name, affiliation...
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UC Budget Woes
The new California budget call for $650 million in cuts to the UC systems -- I understand $500 million had already been planned, they added $150 million on topSan...
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Probability Assignments Using Set
I'm gearing up for teaching my graduate course on randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis next semester. It's been a while since I've taught it, and I'm...
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New Books Worth Looking At
New books are coming out all the time, but here are two big ones that stick out in my mind (perhaps because I've seen the authors recently). [Feel free to mention...
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NSF Changing Broader Impacts
The NSF is changing its description of its merit criteria -- specifically, what the Broader Impacts criteria will be. The details are still being worked out, and...
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Dr. Georgios Zervas
Congratulations to Georgios (alternatively, Giorgos), who defended his thesis today.* (There's still some paperwork to get in, but we drank the champagne afterward...
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NY Times on Computing
A couple of days ago there was a NY Times article on computing being cool (again), including a shout-out to Harvard's own CS 50 and of course the Social Network...
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