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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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Jeff Erickson gets the blame for pointing out this amusing/disturbing video on counting. I feel like I should make it a background video before my undergraduate...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 10, 2012 at 03:00 AM
Interesting Wired article talking about a bunch of people I worked with back when I was at Digital Systems Research Center, and their big effect on Google. It's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 8, 2012 at 11:40 PM
The new semester is hurtling toward me.This semester I get to teach one of my graduate courses, the one I named Algorithms at the End of the Wire sometime over...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 7, 2012 at 03:39 PM
As a manager, I’ve found that I mostly have two jobs: bringing great people onto the team, and creating the conditions for their success. The second job is the...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 2, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Long-time readers know that I have strong opinions about academic conferences. I find the main value of conferences and workshops to be facilitating face-to-face...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 20, 2012 at 09:00 PM
I pointed to this article in the Yale Daily News about computer science when it came out in April. Giorgos just pointed me back to it again, and I'd have to say...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 19, 2012 at 03:49 PM
I'm hanging out at MMDS -- the Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets at Stanford. The crowd is surprisingly huge, with a greater number of peopleProbabilistic...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 12, 2012 at 07:25 PM
As we get ready for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval this October in Cambridge, MA, people around the world are working...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 8, 2012 at 11:22 PM
Groupon is being discussed on NPR (Morning Edition), which means we get a phone call again. Our graphs are reproduced on the site, and John Byers speaks for us...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 6, 2012 at 03:09 PM
Today I get to celebrate that I'm two years done with my three year stint as "Area Dean for Computer Science" (chair). Whoever the new person is, they're supposed...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 30, 2012 at 05:17 PM
I’m proud to be co-organizing the RecSys 2012 Industry Track with Yehuda Koren. Check out the line-up: Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft), Keynote Online Controlled Experiments...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 29, 2012 at 05:41 AM
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the call at http://simons.berkeley.edu/cfp_summer2012.html for the Call for Proposals for Simons Institute programs. The deadline...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 18, 2012 at 08:23 PM
A couple of years ago, I blogged about an information cascade problem I’d read about inDaniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 12, 2012 at 01:54 PM
Lance informs me we have newly elected officers at SIGACT.Chair: Paul BeameMembers-at-Large:Venkatesan GuruswamiRocco ServedioAvrim BlumTal RabinCongratulations...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 8, 2012 at 05:10 PM
I received the following note from Mikkel Thorup and Alexandr Andoni.I believe it's appropriate to share:Dear friends of Mihai,We made a blog in Mihai's memory....Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 8, 2012 at 03:46 AM
This morning I had the pleasure to present a keynote address at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz). I’ve had a long and warm relationship...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 7, 2012 at 11:49 PM
Mikkel Thorup just sent me the following to post regarding Mihai Patrascu. ---------------Mihai Patrascu, aged 29, passed away on Tuesday June 5, 2012, after a1...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 6, 2012 at 09:33 PM
[Justin talks about his upcoming work, to be presented at HotCould.] For the past few years, Michael and I, along with our awesome collaborators, have worked towards...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 6, 2012 at 05:48 PM
One thing I noticed talking to CS graduates from Harvard this year is -- entirely anecdotally -- more seem to be going to small start-ups. This has been an increasing...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 29, 2012 at 03:37 PM