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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 …
From Blog@Ubiquity
Will the Internet Crash Democracy?
Many people in the Western world believe Internet freedom equals freedom of social and political life. The more access we get, the more freedom and democracy we...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Are We Wrong About Innovation?
The notion that creating ideas and imagining new worlds fashioned around these ideas are the keys to innovation is all wrong. Ideation is not innovation The post...
From My Biased Coin
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...
From Blog@Ubiquity
The Self-Similarity of Tech
The tech world is caught in a repeating, self-similar fractal, where the gadgets may be new, but the business models are as old as the Industrial Revolution itself...
From My Biased Coin
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...
From My Biased Coin
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...
From My Biased Coin
Girls Who Code (Newton) Visit to Harvard
My friend David Miller is looking for instructors to help out with the Newton Girls who Code club. Here's an announcement, please connect with him if you're interested...
From My Biased Coin
My (Positive) Apple Retail Repair Experience
I switched to Apple machines several years ago, and have been very happy with them generally.One convenience is there is an Apple store in the mall about 10 minutes...
From My Biased Coin
Women in Math (and Computer Science)
Wednesday afternoon I went to a panel organized by the Harvard Undergraduate Mathematics Association for a "Gender Gap on Math Discussion". I went both to hear...
From My Biased Coin
On the Shannon Centennial
I found in my snail mail mailbox my paper copy of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter. First, I was delighted by the news that Michelle Effros (of Cal...
From My Biased Coin
Links: HBR article on Women in STEM and AAUW Report
A latest article on bias issues for women in STEM by Harvard Business Review. A slide presentation by AAUW related to their report: Solving the Equation: The Variables...
From My Biased Coin
Double Hashing (Lueker and Molodowitch)
A subject I've grown interested in, related to multiple-choice hashing schemes, is when (and why) double hashing can be used in place of "random hashing" with an...
From My Biased Coin
Power of Randomness at Georgia Tech
I'm spending (part of) the week at "The Power of Randomness in Computation Workshop", an IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) workshop at Georgia...
From My Biased Coin
Hate EasyChair
I just typed in a nice long review on EasyChair. Yes, I prefer doing this with the online form when I'm just sitting around and have time to do a review. Apparently...
From My Biased Coin
New Heapable Subsequence Paper
In the "only a dozen people could care about this category"...About 4 1/2 years ago, I posted about a paper we had put up on the arxiv about Heapable Sequences. ...
From My Biased Coin
Stress: Competition and Ranking
One issue I keep seeing in comments here and elsewhere on this issue is that academia is very competitive, with everyone worried about their rank. In my last post...
From My Biased Coin
Stress, Continued: Jobs
Continuing from last post, I aim to focus on some of the issues related to stress in academia. Today's post will be related to stress and the nature of academic...
From My Biased Coin
Stress
I've seen lots of news and posts recently on the general theme of stress in academia. Daniel Lemire blogs about Stefan Grimm, a professor who recently committed...
From My Biased Coin
CS 50 Fair (Live)
The madness that is the CS50 Fair at Harvard is going on now. Hundreds of students demo-ing their final projects. If you can't be there, you can watchthe live...
From My Biased Coin