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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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Swedish Summer School
I was asked to post the following notice for the upcoming Swedish Summer School for (theoretical) computer scientists. I gave some lectures for it a couple ofhttp...
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Optimizing Learned Bloom Filters
For the small-ish subset of people out there who care about "learned Bloom filters" (the subject of my last post), I have a small-ish update. I guess the datafixed...
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Some Notes on "Learned Bloom Filters"
About a month ago, a draft paper was put out on arxiv called The Case for Learned Indexed Structures by the people at Google Brain. The paper has received some...
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Double-blind, ALENEX
I wanted to point people to a pair of blog posts (Part 1, Part 2) by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at the geomblog discussing the experience of having the ALENEX conference...
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Harvard CS Concentrators Jump Again
During my time as Area Dean for computer science, the number of computer science majors at Harvard more than doubled. Growth has continued, and according to the...
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BARC, Copenhagen
A few summers ago, I had an opportunity to visit Copenhagen, and work with Rasmus Pagh for a month. I (and the family) liked it so much we went back the nextAarhus...
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Simulated Annealing for JPEG Quantization
I have a new paper on the arxiv (web page describing results, and full version** available) with two Harvard undergrads, Max Hopkins and Sebastian Wagner-Carrena...
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Grace Hopper College
I hadn't seen the news about Yale renaming Calhoun College to Hopper College; it just popped into one of my newslines here in the New York times. I guess I hadn't...
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Best Post I've Read on the Google Memo
After the shout-out to Meena, she suggested I might have more to say on the issue of the Google memo. I (like I imagine so many others) have been following the...
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Shout-out to Meena Boppana
For some reason (Google*), I found myself thinking of former Harvard student Meena Boppana this week, and thought I'd link to some things, focusing on things she...
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Current Harvard Oddness
It's summer. And I'm now on sabbatical. So perhaps I shouldn't care about strange Harvard politics goings-on, but I can't help it. Here's the tl;dr version, which...
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Mitzenmacher and Upfal, 2nd Edition
The word is that the 2nd edition of our book is now (finally) available/in stock at Amazon. You can tell it's the 2nd edition, because the "Alice cover" is now...
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STOC General Comment Page
The 2017 STOC is over, and I thought it went very well. The new format ran with what seemed to me to be minimal to non-existent glitches, and overall it sounded...
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Last Week For STOC Sign-Ups
A reminder that this year's STOC is supersized, with (completely in the STOC package) multiple workshops, tutorials, and special speakers. But for those of you...
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Super-Important Things to Do Right Now for STOC 2017
STOC 2017 is just around the corner, which means that several deadlines are just around the corner.The student travel support request deadline is this Thursday,...
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STOC Theory Fest Announcements
There's a lot of new information up at the STOC web page http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/ about the amazing theory fest June 19-23 in Montreal. In particular, most...
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SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize Call, 2017
Call for Nominations2017 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize The Theory community benefits in many ways from the dedicated service, above and beyond the call of...
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Godel Prize 2017 Call
The call for nomination for the 2017 Godel Prize is up. The call is available at http://madhu.seas.harvard.edu/Announce/Goedel2017CFN.html and will be up on the...
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Knuth Prize 2017 Call
The call is going out for the 2017 Knuth Prize. The call will be up on the SIGACT Web page shortly, but until it shows up there here's a pdf. Key date: deadline...
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