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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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WSDM 2013 Accepted Papers
The list of papers accepted to WSDM 2013 is now up. Looks like the usual fun mix of papers.
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Crimson Series on the Ad Board
The Harvard Crimson just finished a four-part series looking at the Harvard Ad Board since the reforms a couple of years ago. I must admit I didn't find the articles...
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STOC 2013 Submissions
I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions:1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attentionto length and formatting...
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Giving a Teleseminar
The nice folks at Texas A&M asked me to give a teleseminar as part of their series. So instead of flying all the way to Texas to give a talk, I did so from the...
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Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call
Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs! Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp...
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Allerton Panel
This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website). Hard to believe it's been around that long. I think my first...
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Harvard CS Is Hiring
Tenure Track Position Open. Here's the official blurb:Tenure-track Position in Computer ScienceThe Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks...
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Student Bragging....
Always worth bragging about my students...Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Failure Probability" (with me, Michael...
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By the Numbers
Pretty much matching my predictions....My graduate course has 50 enrolled right now, fairly close to 50-50 between undergrads and grads.Salil's introductory complexity...
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Happiness Is...
NSF saying yes to your grant... (Isn't that one of the lyrics?)Once again, thanks to the NSF, I get to remain in business* for the next 3-4 years or so. (Arguably...
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But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
First day of lecture for CS 222, Algorithms at the End of the Wire. They stuck me in a classroom that holds 20 comfortably, and 25 or so can be done. I'm pretty...
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Uncertainty
There's an interesting new article on the Gov 1310 case* on the Crimson yesterday, titled Students Accused in Cheating Scandal Frustrated by Uncertain Process....
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Honor Codes?
A further interesting question that has come out of the as-of-yet alleged cheating scandal at Harvard is whether Harvard should have an honor code. The question...
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Max Flows in O(nm) Time by Orlin
Just saw Suresh point to this talk (and paper) about a new result for max flows in O(nm) time by James Orlin. I'm listening to the talk he has on line this afternoon...
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Academic Dishonesty Cases
I have a bunch of half-written blog posts, none of which I have felt pressed to finish, so the blog has languished over the summer. But then, something has come...
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Important IP Case
For those of you not following the Apple-Samsung case going on right now, it's fascinating. Since I do expert witness work, it's interesting to me from that perspective...
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Mail Issue
Last week I had an issue where I sent an e-mail to someone (non-work-related), and a while later got the response forwarded to me from my wife, with a note that...
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Distracting Videos
Jeff Erickson gets the blame for pointing out this amusing/disturbing video on counting. I feel like I should make it a background video before my undergraduate...
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Article about DEC Folk
Interesting Wired article talking about a bunch of people I worked with back when I was at Digital Systems Research Center, and their big effect on Google. It's...
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