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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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Giving in to Student Demands
I received my student reviews today, and while I could easily post days' worth of discussions on them, suffice to say there's a non-trivial minority of students...
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Links to Look At
Matt Welsh has what he tells me is his most-read post ever about The Secret Lives of Professors. I'll help promote it here, but save my commentary for the comments...
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Estimating the Query Difficulty for Information Retrieval
The other day, I received a surprise package in the mail: a copy of IBM researchers David Carmel and Elad Yom-Tov’s newly published lecture on “Estimating the Query...
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Grade Inflation?
I know Harvard is supposed to be famous for its grade inflation, but that's not generally the case in my class (and, I think, for our CS classes in general). Having...
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ACM elections reminder
I was asked to remind everyone that if they want to vote on the ACM elections, the deadline is May 24th. Here is the official ACM election page. You might note...
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Elastic Lists for Faceted Search
If you like faceted search and are interested in design patterns for it, I encourage you to check out Moritz Stefaner’s work on elastic lists. Here is his description...
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Harvard News Items
Some highlights: 1) From the Crimson: "An undergraduate has been dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into online accounts of the teaching staff...
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Robobees Redux
While I intentionally try to avoid the political on this blog, I did make an exception previously when I heard that the Harvard Robobees project had made #1 onthe...
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People You May Know
I was just looking at LinkedIn and found myself pleasantly surprised by a minor UI improvement in the “People You May Know” widget: as you delete people you don’t...
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The Google Job Experiment
This is just so brilliant that I had to post it here. I’ve blogged in the past about alerting spam, but this guy took the idea to a new level, with great return...
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The Value of Experiments
Several days ago Lance wrote about "Is Complexity Math or Science?", and in that context wrote "We don't do experiments...", which has caused me to overreact.I'm...
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Another Book on Networks
Another book on networks, namely Networks: An Introduction, by Mark Newman, will be available in about a week or so. Mark is known to many in the networking community...
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Slides from Enterprise Search Summit Keynotes
Here are the slides from Marti Hearst’s and Peter Morville’s keynote presentations at the Enterprise Search Summit: Designing Search For Humans Search & Discovery...
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Something Different from Google New York
Earlier this week, I mentioned that my colleagues here at Google New York were working cool stuff. Today some of them officially blogged about it! Check out today’s...
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Peter Morville
This morning’s Enterprise Search Summit keynote was by Peter Morville, who has written a number of best-selling books about information architecture. I’ve known...
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Marti Hearst
The Enterprise Search Summit is taking place in New York this week, and I was lucky to be able to attend Marti Hearst’s opening keynote this morning about designing...
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Complexity of Distributed Systems, Market Crash Style
Apparently, the stock market crash of 5/6/10 was not, as originally thought, due to a "standard" human/computer error where someone meant to sell a million shared...
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Celebrating Six Months at Google New York
Today I celebrate six months of working at Google. I’m having a great time, and I wanted to take a moment to share a bit about my experience thus far. First, a...
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Aldous/Diaconis: Longest Increasing Subsequences
For some research I'm currently doing, I ran across a truly wonderful "old" paper,Longest increasing subsequences: from patience sorting to the Baik-Deift-Johansson...
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