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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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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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Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day 2013
I was asked to advertise the upcoming Second Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day (CAEC'13);information is available at http://caec.seas.harvard.edu/It's...
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Update: Andrew Auernheimer Watch
Well, this is going to give me nightmares for a while. TechNewsWorld:"Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison...
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But I Haven't Thought of You Lately At All....
I realize the times they-are-a-changing, and so maybe I shouldn't find this unusual, but...Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas put up a Kickstarter campaign to raise 2Done...
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Turing Award : Goldwasser and Micali
Got in the office this morning and heard about the latest Turing Award: Congrats to Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali! (Press release.)
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A Second Life for our Groupon Paper
Groupon has been in the news lately -- something about their CEO leaving, I hear. And Giorgos Zervas has been out giving talks. (He's a great speaker. You should...
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The Press
Harvard's name, obviously, still sells newspapers. The "e-mailgate" scandal of the past few days has been appearing everywhere. I was contacted multiple times...
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Mike Smith Explains, Apologizes
Given the hubbub that arose this weekend over the issue of Harvard examining the e-mail of some of the Resident Deans, it's gratifying (if unsurprising) that this...
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Harvard Spies on E-mails
A strange offshoot of the Harvard cheating scandal -- a report in the Boston Globe that Harvard administrators decided it was OK to search through Resident Dean...
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Rankings Don't Matter (But)
Back when I started at Harvard, people would literally say things to me like, "I didn't know Harvard had computer science." Now I could just point such people here...
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Discussing STOC 2013 PC with Joan Feigenbaum
Joan Feigenbaum is the Program Committee Chair for STOC 2013, where papers decisions were recently announced; I served as part of the Executive Committee. Joan...
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ICALP formatting
Given the loud outcry regarding the STOC 2013 formatting, which gave you 10 double-column pages to work with (at the cost of, you know, having to turn your paper...
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Online Censorship Day and Other Links
1) Sharon Goldberg and Nick Feamster asked me to announce the following:In the tradition of CAEC, NYCE, and etc, we are holding a "Day" on online censorship at...
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Daily Show
Anyone else watching Jon Stewart making fun of Harvard w/regard to the "cheating scandal".[I need the exact wording for the punch line -- "Open Internet? Is this...
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Zachary Quinto and Cherry Jones are in Town...
Harvard had a special faculty meet-the-director-deal thing for a preview of The Glass Menagerie, playing the next few weeks at the American Repertory Theater, that...
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Ad Board Update
We've finally got an update on the Government 1310 situation. As reported by the Crimson, FAS Dean Mike Smith sent out an email Friday, where he wrote that“somewhat...
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Friday Ruminations
It's felt like a bad few weeks at Harvard.Not that anything actually BAD has happened, like an inexplicable paper rejection or some interdepartmental fight or anything...
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On My Drive in This Morning...
It would, of course, be completely inappropriate for me to write that if you're interested in illegal prescription drugs, you should go talk to Stefan Savage of...
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