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 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
I’ve been exchanging emails with Dhiti co-founder Bharath Mohan about Nuggetize, an intriguing interface that surfaces “nuggets” from a site to reduce the user’s...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 15, 2010 at 10:32 AM
For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 13, 2010 at 03:48 PM
Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online. You can find them here.Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 13, 2010 at 03:29 PM
I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 12, 2010 at 11:25 AM
While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge.At both places I gave my talk on our analysis of the auction site Swoopo...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 11, 2010 at 06:01 PM
This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/networks, Algorithms at the End of the...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 8, 2010 at 07:23 PM
The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel. For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily at the Computer Science. ...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 7, 2010 at 06:03 PM
If you’re a search engine junkie like me, you’ve probably heard about Blekko, a search engine that has been percolating for over two years and recently launched...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 7, 2010 at 02:57 AM
The 4th Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) is coming up on August 22 in New Brunswick, NJ, taking place immediately after...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 4, 2010 at 01:55 AM
As I blogged a few months ago, University of Oviedo professor Daniel Gayo-Avello published a research paper entitled “Nepotistic Relationships in Twitter and their...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 3, 2010 at 09:25 AM
Yahoo! Answers and Answers.com have been around since 2005. But community question answering (as distinct from question answering using natural language processing)...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | August 1, 2010 at 09:15 AM
As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay, who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian inference (author of Information...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM
While the SIGIR 2010 Industry Track keynotes had the highest-profile speakers, the rest of the day assembled an impressive line-up: The new frontiers of Web search...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM
As the semester ominously approaches, we've noticed that we're facing a number of class time-slot collisions in computer science.This is unsurprising. Until recently...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 27, 2010 at 07:37 AM
When I organized the SIGIR 2009 Industry Track last year, my goal was to meet the standard set by the CIKM 2008 Industry Event: a compelling set of presentations...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | July 25, 2010 at 09:41 AM
Often, after I give a talk, the feedback I hear back is "I understood your whole talk," or something near that. I take it as a compliment (although I don't think...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 23, 2010 at 09:57 AM