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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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Anniversary
Today I get to celebrate that I'm two years done with my three year stint as "Area Dean for Computer Science" (chair). Whoever the new person is, they're supposed...
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Simons Institute Call
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the call at http://simons.berkeley.edu/cfp_summer2012.html for the Call for Proposals for Simons Institute programs. The deadline...
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New SIGACT Officers
Lance informs me we have newly elected officers at SIGACT.Chair: Paul BeameMembers-at-Large:Venkatesan GuruswamiRocco ServedioAvrim BlumTal RabinCongratulations...
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Mihai Memorial Blog
I received the following note from Mikkel Thorup and Alexandr Andoni.I believe it's appropriate to share:Dear friends of Mihai,We made a blog in Mihai's memory....
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Sad Passing: Mihai Patrascu
Mikkel Thorup just sent me the following to post regarding Mihai Patrascu. ---------------Mihai Patrascu, aged 29, passed away on Tuesday June 5, 2012, after a1...
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Verification in the Cloud [Guest Post by Justin Thaler]
[Justin talks about his upcoming work, to be presented at HotCould.] For the past few years, Michael and I, along with our awesome collaborators, have worked towards...
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More Entrepreneurial Harvard?
One thing I noticed talking to CS graduates from Harvard this year is -- entirely anecdotally -- more seem to be going to small start-ups. This has been an increasing...
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CS 124 -- Some Student Comments
Overall, I feel I've had a very successful year, but I do have to admit: my undergraduate class, CS 124, could have been better this spring. I wasn't prepared...
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Non-travel
For the past few years, I've been the chair for one of the international review panels for Country X's research funding bodies. (It's probably all a matter of...
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Summer School on Massive Data Mining in Copenhagen
Rasmus Pagh asked me to advertise the following summer school he is organizing. Looks like a good deal to me:SUMMER SCHOOL ON MASSIVE DATA MININGAugust 8-10, 2012...
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That Time of Year : Annual NSF Reports
I received my notice a few weeks back that it's time to fill out my annual grant reports for NSF.I'd like to complain about it; it's a pretty boring process, and...
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A Little Truly Offensive Bragging (On Behalf of Harvard CS)
So which US school was the only one in the top ten for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest this year?No, not MIT, Princeton, or Carnegie Mellon...
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Grading, Correlation vs. Causation
Final grades are finally in, thank goodnees. With 100+ students, even entering the grades is non-trivial. Once again, freshman in my undergraduate Algorithms...
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Grading is No Fun
I'm told my exams are not nearly as much fun as I like to think they are. (It's a very rare occurrence when someone turns in their exam early at my 3-hour final...
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Attribute-Efficient Learning (Guest Post by Justin Thaler)
[Editor's comment: Justin has been having quite a year; after a paper in ICS, he's recently had papers accepted to ISIT, ICALP, HotCloud, and COLT. In this guest...
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Sandel on Colbert
Taking a class from Michael Sandel was one of the highlights of my college experience. (You can sit on the lectures online, here.) Here's his latest appearance...
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A Collaborative Atmosphere
I was excited to hear that "my student"* Justin Thaler, working with Salil Vadhan and his student Jon Ullman, had a paper accepted to ICALP (Faster Algorithms for...
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Thanks, Yale Daily News!
Harvard's CS50 class is nicely lauded -- by a column in the Yale Daily News. First, the Harvard-centric stuff:The good news is that there
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Things Worth Reading
A blog post describing the disturbing official version of the facts in the UC-Davis pepper spray incident. This should be a link to the actual report. A post...
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