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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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You Can Rename My Family for.....
An interesting article in today's Crimson about the background to the announcement that Harvard's School of Public Health will be re-named the Harvard T. H. Chan...
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Teaching Sorting
For many years now, while teaching the introductory Algorithms and Data Structures, I have told students that we won't be starting with (or really covering) sorting...
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Shout-out to Sabeti Lab
A shout-out today to my friend and colleague Pardis Sabeti (and her lab) for their Science article on the Ebola virus that appeared earlier today. Pardis and her...
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Update on SOCG and ACM
I am happy to have an update on the SOCG/STOC colocation issue that arose last week. Or, better said, Jeff Erickson has an update, the short summary of which is...
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New Article on arxiv on Equitability and MIC
We recently put on arxiv a new draft on "Theoretical Foundations of Equitability and the Maximal Information Coefficient". This is some follow-on work to a paper...
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Is the ACM "Retaliating" Against SOCG?
Friday afternoon Jeff Erickson posted at Making SOCG blog some "bad news". Some background: very recently, the Symposium on Computational Geometry, or SoCG, decided...
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Hashing Summer School
Back in July I took part in the Hashing Summer School in Copenhagen. This was nominally set up by me, Rasmus Pagh, and Mikkel Thorup, though Mikkel was reallycourse...
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Reviewing Scales
I'm just about finished reviewing for CoNEXT (Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies), and am starting reviewing for ITCS (Innovations in...
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Back to Work
Harvard classes start up in a few weeks, and officially, my sabbatical is over. I'm back in my office, trying to get back into a Harvard routine.I notice thatAnalysis...
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See You in Prague
For those of you going to SPAA this coming week, I'll see you there. I'll be giving the last two talks at the conference, to what I expect (based on the timing)...
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NSF Thanks for the Year
It's that time of year where, as a background process, I have to do my annual reviews for the NSF. It's generally not a very exciting task, and their online forms...
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Sad News: Berthold Vöcking
I have just seen the news that Berthold Vöcking passed away. For those who didn't know him, Berthold was an oustanding researcher in algorithms. We had several...
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Child Geniuses and Other Articles
Stuck on a flight home, I passed time reading a hotel copy of the Wall Street Journal, to find more interesting things than I would have thought.What first caught...
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ITCS 2015
I was asked to announce the call for ITCS. Here is a link to the call for papers, with the most important info:ITCS (previously known as ICS) seeks to promote...
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What's Important in Algorithms
I saw this interesting article up on 20 questions with Don Knuth, worth reading just for the fun of it. But the following question on work in algorithm designThus...
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Reviewing Question: What's Important
Nick Feamster on Google+ recently shared (and gave me permission to blog about) the following review comment:This review comment is super enlightening:"I think...
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Postdocs in Copenhagen
I apologize for the short notice, but my occasional co-author Rasmus Pagh is looking for postdocs for a big data project he recently had funded, with an application...
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Hashing Summer School in Copenhagen
Of the many, many interesting things happening in Copenhagen this summer (SEA, ICALP) we'd like to add one more: a Hashing Summer School at the University of Copenhagen...
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Leslie Lamport wins Turing Awards
In another sign that these Turing Award committees really know what they're doing, Leslie Lamport has won the Turing Award. There's a very nice writeup including...
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