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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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FOCS 16 Workshops/Tutorials Call for Proposals
I'm told that there's a call for proposals up for workshops/tutorials for FOCS 16. Here's a link to the call for those who are interested....Deadline is August...
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STOC Theory Fest 2017 (Montreal June 19-23)
As SIGACT chair I announced at the STOC’16 business meeting that starting in 2017, STOC will turn into a 5-day event, a Theory Fest. This idea was discussed atspecial...
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STOC 2017 (and STOC 2016)
I'm starting to get asked about STOC 2017 dates -- we recently executed the hotel contract, and STOC will be June 18-23 in Montreal. (It will really "start" the...
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Class Evaluations, Again
I've not been blogging much, but I have an excuse now that class evaluations have arrived. By posting about the evaluations, the students know I read them. And...
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SODA Information
Phil Klein passed on that there's a delay at SIAM in getting the SODA 2017 CFP up, and of course we want to get out the relevant information out to the community...
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David Johnson
I was sad to learn that David Johnson passed away. David was a leader in the theoretical computer science community for decades, both in his research and in his...
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Distinguished Service Award
Nominations are open for the SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize.More information is available at the SIGACT web site. Here's the key info: Nominations Nominations...
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Graduating Bits Announcement
Boaz asked me to remind people about ITCS, and in particular the Graduating Bits Event. Just in time for those of us reading application folders....ITCS 2016 will...
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Yes, We Have Postdocs This Year
The Harvard Theory of Computation group has postdocs. This year, besides our usual general call for postdocs, we are also inaugurating the Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral...
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Yes, We're Hiring This Year
Harvard's CS search ad is apparently up and out. We're eagerly awaiting applications....https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/6497The Harvard John A.http...
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This Year's Andreessen-Horowitz Meeting
Andreessen Horowitz had another Academic Roundtable, which I've written about in previous years (here, here). For me, the most exciting session was on VirtualMatthew...
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One Lecture Down....
CS125, the "new", "honors-ish" Algorithms and Complexity course, got off to a good start today. The room was full with not enough seats for people, the students...
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CACM Viewpoints on Theory and Experiments
There's a fun pair of viewpoints in the September CACM by Jeffrey Ullman and myself on experiments in computer science research, with him addressing systems conferences...
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SIGACT Meeting, Some Stuff
As some of you know, I was recently elected to the position of SIGACT (ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory) Chair. So some part ofpreview...
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The High Cost of Conferences
At some point, I'm convinced the "conference structure" is going to fall apart.Case in point -- I haven't bought my tickets yet for SIGCOMM because, unless I'm...
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SoCG Proceedings
The 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry has its proceedings available online here.I point this out because the SoCG proceedings were managedLIPIcs...
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More Good News for SEAS
About six months ago, I was able to point to a nice gift from Steve Ballmer for Computer Science at Harvard. Today, more good news, this time for all of the Harvard...
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What makes a well-attended conference? (STOC 2017 Discussion)
I've always been impressed how the SIGCOMM conference accepts a very small number of papers, but many hundreds of people attend the conference. (This is true for...
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New Work on Equitability and MIC
A few years ago, working with a diverse group of scientists, I was looking at a problem related to big data analysis. The setting was data exploration, where you...
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