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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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Current CS 124 Stats
This is as much personal recording for me (and perhaps of interest to Harvard people who read the blog). But also putting the numbers here for others to know for...
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ITCS 2020, Reflections
I've spent Sunday/Monday at ITCS, or Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, where I am giving a talk on this paper on Scheduling with Prediction and the Price...
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Allston : Students Should Speak Up
I have had (as is pretty usual for me) some number of lunches with students this semester, and many of them asked me about the Computer Science move to Allston....
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Crimson Editorial on Allston
This was the first Crimson editorial I can recall about the upcoming move computer science will be making to Allston next year. I'd encourage students (both undergraduate...
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Harvard Admissions Lawsuit Decision Out
As someone who reads a significant number of court documents and decisions (I still do expert witness work), I can recommend for your reading pleasure the very....
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Changing Times
An old friend from college sent me an e-mail, and it got me thinking. When I was an undergraduate at Harvard some significant number of years ago, I took the graduate...
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Off to ALGO/ESA 2019
I'm shortly hopping on a plane to head to ALGO/ESA. I'll be giving a survey-ish talk on Learning Augmented Algorithms, covering my work so far in the area as well...
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Happy New Academic Year: Teaching Randomized Algorithms
It seems I haven't written on this blog for a while.Today was the start of a new semester. I'll be teaching Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis, using...
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ANALCO, SOSA, SODA post
I spent the last few days at SODA-ANALCO-ALENEX-SOSA in San Diego. (Nice location choice, I'd say!) Here's some news.This will be the last ANALCO (Analytic Algorithms...
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NIPS 2018 Post
Today was my first day at a NIPS conference. Advertising note, before my thoughts on the experience:Tomorrow I'll be stationed at a poster 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM...
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Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship Advertising Post
Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer ScienceDeadline for full consideration: December 3, 2018. Applications can be submitted here:https...
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Lenore Blum interview
I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced resignation from CMU would be...
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Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms, Submission Server
A reminder that the deadline for SOSA 2019 is August 16. The submission server is live and running (and we already have some submissions!). The easychair link...
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STOC Lunch Sign-ups, and Reminder
Just a reminder that next week is the 50th STOC in Los Angeles! You can still come and register on site, so please come -- the program is STOC-full of good stuff...
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Sympoisum on Simplicity in Algorithms, 2019
Jeremy Fineman and I are co-chairing the 2019 Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms, the second year of this new endeavor. It's nicely co-located with SODA, and...
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STOC 2018, Early Reg Deadline
Just a reminder that the early registration for STOC 2018 is June 1. Besides wanting that early registration discount price, you really want to also make your...
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SIGACT-Related Stuff
Some SIGACT related-stuff of import:First, there's an election going on!!! If you're an ACM/SIGACT member, you've probably gotten an e-mail about this, and it's...
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New Papers/Code for MIC and MINE
Several years ago, I worked on a project where the goal was to try to come up with an "equitable" version of a measure of dependence; the idea was you could take...
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Sublinear Algorithms Workshop
I was asked to post to announce the workshop/bootcamp on Sublinear Algorithms, June 10-13 at MIT. I plan to be there and possibly talk about some new work. From...
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