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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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The news has hit the wires -- Chuck Thacker is this year's Turing Award winner.I had the great pleasure of getting to know Chuck while I worked at DEC SRC. He's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 9, 2010 at 04:19 PM
The list of accepted papers for EC is up. I'm happy to say that our Swoopo paper made the list. I was surprised in the acceptance letter to find that there were...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 9, 2010 at 02:16 PM
The "final version" for our NSDI paper, Carousel: Scalable Logging for Intrusion Prevention Systems, is now up.Here's the main idea. In IPS systems, the logger...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 8, 2010 at 03:48 AM
Let me preface this post with a clear disclaimer: I work at Google, but the views I express on this blog are my own personal views.
Last week, Google head of webspam...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 7, 2010 at 09:34 PM
A topic with which I developed an obsession in my last few years at Endeca is understanding how to predict query difficulty and performance–performance in the information...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 7, 2010 at 03:55 PM
We’re gearing up to officially announce the HCIR 2010 workshop, but I wanted to give folks here a heads up, as well as to put out a call for a volunteer.
The Fourth...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | March 7, 2010 at 05:41 AM
A commenter asked me a while back to say what I thought of the SIGCOMM submissions this year. I'm finally getting around to reading and reviewing. (First round...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 5, 2010 at 10:36 PM
I'm pleased to hear that David Johnson has won the Knuth Prize for "his contributions to theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms." David has done a...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 3, 2010 at 04:45 PM
As I finished my lecture today for my undergraduate algorithms and data structures course, after spending about half an hour explaining Bloom filters and what they...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 2, 2010 at 04:35 PM
The Economist has a special section this month devoted to The Data Deluge. (Much of it may still be behind their firewall.) Many computer scientists are quoted...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 1, 2010 at 06:59 PM
Lately, I’ve been musing about the Herb Simon quote that launched–or at least popularized–the concepts of information overload and attention economics:
in an information...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 28, 2010 at 04:17 PM
I was just asked to serve on the ACM CoNEXT 2010 PC (I'll have to think about it -- NSDI,SIGCOMM, and CoNEXT all in one year?), and the chairs (Muriel Medard and...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 26, 2010 at 01:22 PM
I hate to follow the interesting conversations on FOCS/STOC/SODA (please keep commenting) with the mundane, but Lance forced me asked me to be General Chair for...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 25, 2010 at 12:52 PM
Continuing from my last "controversial" post, David Karger offered the following long comment, turned into a guest post:------------I wanted to post a comment on...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 23, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is one of my favorite examples of leveraging the internet for innovation: Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 20, 2010 at 10:15 AM
As mentioned recently, the FOCS submission site is now up, and STOC acceptances have come out. Related blog posts have arrived, including an amusing one by Dick...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 16, 2010 at 05:12 AM
I’m back from vacation, and still digging my way out of everything that’s piled up while I’ve been offline.
While I catch up, I thought I’d share with you a demo...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | February 16, 2010 at 05:09 AM
This just in -- computer science students at Stanford cheat! I love this quote: "Historically, the computer science department accounts for between 20 to 60 percent...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 13, 2010 at 05:39 PM
Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010. Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there's no page limit on submissions...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 11, 2010 at 02:37 PM
I opened the January issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and saw (what is probably old news to everyone) that Tracey Ho, Muriel Medard, Ralf Kotter...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 9, 2010 at 11:19 PM