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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Dean of Harvard's SEAS, Cherry Murray, is to be appointed to President Obama's oil spill panel.Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM
This article from the Crimson on the state of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from a couple of weeks ago serves as a good primer for me on...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 14, 2010 at 07:57 PM
Co-located conferences make for a hectic week! Again, my thanks to the Microsoft local arrangement team (especially Paul Oka) for setting up STOC, which I thought...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 12, 2010 at 02:24 PM
Boaz Barak asked to give a guest post on the recent STOC/FOCS issue and the question of accepting more papers. So I hand the floor over to Boaz:Do we really need...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 11, 2010 at 06:56 PM
In honor of being at EC, a post on branding. In theory, your research will be judged and appreciated based on its intrinsic quality, and your scientific reputation...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM
EC is an interesting mix of theory/AI/economics and many other things as well (data mining, social computing, user interfaces....) Definitely a bit of a hodgepodge...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 10, 2010 at 02:03 AM
Prediction markets were all the rage a few years ago, two of the most notable being the Iowa Electronic Market forecasting electoral results and the now defunct...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 9, 2010 at 09:33 AM
STOC 2010 appears to be running quite smoothly. I've been popping in and out -- the problem with being a local is that I actually have to go home at reasonable...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 7, 2010 at 07:07 PM
In honor of the STOC business meeting coming up shortly: STOC, CCC, and EC are all apparently poised to have very strong attendance this year -- from what I understand...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 6, 2010 at 09:36 PM
I'm very, very pleased to announce that Matt Welsh's Harvard tenure case has been successful. There's a number of wonderful things I could say about Matt andthe...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 6, 2010 at 02:34 PM
I was asked by the SIGCOMM program chairs to remind everyone that there are travel grants available, especially for students, postdocs, and junior faculty. Since...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 5, 2010 at 07:39 PM
As long-time readers of the blog know, I am a fan of ITA software, the company with the fare-finding technology and search engine that powers Orbitz and several...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM
I'm not yet sure how many hours a week being a Chair (oops, "Area Dean") will chew up, but I think it's safe to say it will be a non-trivial number. I'm generally...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 3, 2010 at 05:30 PM
Since I left, Andrew McGregor tool over and has posted a summary of day 3 on his polylogblog, which is also now added (at the top!) on the bloglist at the right...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 3, 2010 at 04:56 PM
Bertinoro is a really beautiful city. I just felt like saying that.Today's talks: Geppino Pucci talked about Bluetooth networks, modeled as a variation of random...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 2, 2010 at 04:34 AM
Eric Andersen called my attention to a post by Nick Carr entitled “Experiments in delinkification“, in which Carr argues that links embedded in text are distracting...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | June 1, 2010 at 09:27 AM
Since it's more or less been publicly announced at this point, I may as well announce it here: starting July 1, I'll be the new Area Dean for Computer Scienceunlike...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 1, 2010 at 07:46 AM
I'm here at Bertinoro (a beautiful, out-of-the-way, small town in Italy) for the 2010 version of Random GRAALS (= graphs and algorithms), a workshop that we'vestandard...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 31, 2010 at 04:04 PM
Just a reminder to all of you HCIR people out there that the submission deadline for the HCIR 2010 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 28, 2010 at 06:05 PM
At the start of semester, at one point I had 48 people signed up for my extension Algorithms and Data Structures course, which I said from day one would not last...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 28, 2010 at 04:30 PM