From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
I’ve been reading Networks, Crowds, and Markets, a great textbook by David Easley and Jon Kleinberg. I’m very grateful to Cambridge University Press for surprising...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 17, 2010 at 09:41 AM
Surprise is not a word that user interface designers typically like to hear. Indeed, the principle of least surprise (also called the principle of least astonishment)...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | November 7, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Ideally, a search engine would read the user’s mind. Shy of that, a search engine should provide the user with an efficient process for expressing an information...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 26, 2010 at 09:36 AM
For those still receiving this feed, I have a guest post briefly describing some aspects of life as Area Dean over at the Computational Complexity blog. Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 20, 2010 at 11:40 AM
Last week, I had the pleasure of talking with CMU professor George Loewenstein, one of the top researchers in the area of behavioral economics. I mentioned my idea...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | October 10, 2010 at 06:39 PM
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) plans to release new guidance as to which patent...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 26, 2010 at 01:02 AM
A guiding principle in information technology has been to enable people to perform tasks at the “speed of thought”. The goal is not just to make people more efficient...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 20, 2010 at 04:08 AM
In 2007, I persuaded MIT graduate students Michael Bernstein and Robin Stewart (who was interning atDaniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 11, 2010 at 03:44 PM
Image recognition is one of those problems that has presented long-standing challenges to computer scientists, despite being taken for granted by science fiction...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 9, 2010 at 05:13 AM
One of the perks of blogging is that publishers sometimes send me review copies of new books. I couldn’t help but be curious about a book entitled “The Man Who...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | September 7, 2010 at 11:11 AM
I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment. Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequent and opinionatedKleinberg's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 31, 2010 at 11:48 AM
From Shots in the Dark, a pointer to a new "feature" -- apparently, there's not a tweet system recording and listing books checked out from Harvard libraries. Marc...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 29, 2010 at 03:59 AM
Last Sunday was HCIR 2010, the Fourth Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, held at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, collocated...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 27, 2010 at 05:24 AM
I was recently asked to review a paper for Transactions on Networking, and noticed the following bit in the e-mail?Please note that while this paper may have had...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 25, 2010 at 01:20 PM
There were many interesting things at the CRA Snowbird conference for CS chairs (which I missed...), but I haven't heard any blog-level discussion of their call...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 24, 2010 at 02:52 AM
I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended. That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1. Also nicely, from the count on the right, I'mreally...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 22, 2010 at 07:23 PM
I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS. There was a brief introduction by Chris...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 21, 2010 at 03:35 AM
Wow. After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made an announcement...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 20, 2010 at 08:02 PM
While it may not be news elsewhere, I'm certainly interested in the "local" case of Marc Hauser, the evolutionary psychologist at Harvard whose work has been "under...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 19, 2010 at 03:10 PM