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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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And Thanks For All the Fish
As my Area Administrator Tristen reminded me, "...today is officially your last day as my boss..." Monday is July 1, which officially ends my term as Area Dean...
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How Should We Choose Students?
Some of my previous posts have led me to think about the following -- something I'm hoping to write a longer piece about in the near future.In the past few weeks...
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Valiant's Book Out: Probably Approximately Correct
Les Valiant has a new book out: Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex WorldI was sent a free copy last week...
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Harvard Humanities
There's been a mild hubbub toward the end of the week here, due to a report and some articles (Boston Globe, WSJ) that the number of students majoring at the humanities...
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NSF Reviewing Trial Run
Noam Nisan points to the NSF trying out some new rules for reviewing in its upcoming SSS program. There's a lot here to discuss. First, I'm glad to see the NSF...
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Review are In, 2013
Teaching reviews are in! I'm happy to say students were more forgiving than last year. But also, I notice in the reviews the effects of 4 significant changes...
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An Unusual CS Student Blog
As I'm up working/watching a Memorial Day weekend Arrested Development marathon (OK, I'm not working that hard), I found myself wandering over to Justine Bateman's...
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Grades In
The grades are in for CS 124. Hooray!Interesting trend : freshmen, who make up a small fraction of the class, are highly over-represented in the A and A- grades...
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Congratulations to Justin and Jon
Justin Thaler and Jon Ullman had back-to-back thesis defenses today. Both talks were excellent -- Justin's on his work on verification methods (for cloud computing)...
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Calling Out Stupidity
While I greatly enjoy working at Harvard, there are many painfully stupid things said and done by people here -- as I suppose is the case anywhere -- that either...
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A Boy and His Atom
Some researchers at IBM are so good at playing with atoms, they decided to make a movie (called A Boy and His Atom), by moving atoms. Cool stuff. Computer science...
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Some Recent Books
If you've been reading the other computer science blogs, you know that there are some new books out. First is the Golden Ticket, by Lance Fortnow, about the P vs...
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Thanks for the Memories....
I'm off to a meeting next week, so today was my last day of class for Computer Science 124 (Algorithms and Data Structures) for the semester. For two reasons,...
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Guest Post by Mark Bun and Justin Thaler
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Michael asked me and Mark to write a post on our paper "Dual...
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Congratulations to Mark Bun and Justin Thaler
Luca Aceto reported the paper awards for ICALP 2013. But I find it necessary to give a special shout-out to Harvard Ph.D. students Mark Bun and Justin Thaler,Dual...
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Guest Post by Mikkel Thorup : Results vs. Techniques
[Mikkel Thorup graciously has offered a guest blog post, discussing what he looks for in conference papers, and possible implications for refereeing.] Results versus...
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Upcoming Events
I've been asked to post for some upcoming events. The Simons Institute will have a multi-day symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing May 29-31, just before...
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Harvard E-Mail, Again
Yesterday was the long-awaited faculty meeting after the news that Harvard had examined the e-mail (metadata) of the Resident Deans looking for a leak of what was...
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Harvard in the NCAA Tournament
Thank goodness it's Harvard's vacation week.Otherwise, the rioting would have been unbearable.
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