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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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UC Budget Woes
The new California budget call for $650 million in cuts to the UC systems -- I understand $500 million had already been planned, they added $150 million on topSan...
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Probability Assignments Using Set
I'm gearing up for teaching my graduate course on randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis next semester. It's been a while since I've taught it, and I'm...
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New Books Worth Looking At
New books are coming out all the time, but here are two big ones that stick out in my mind (perhaps because I've seen the authors recently). [Feel free to mention...
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NSF Changing Broader Impacts
The NSF is changing its description of its merit criteria -- specifically, what the Broader Impacts criteria will be. The details are still being worked out, and...
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Dr. Georgios Zervas
Congratulations to Georgios (alternatively, Giorgos), who defended his thesis today.* (There's still some paperwork to get in, but we drank the champagne afterward...
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NY Times on Computing
A couple of days ago there was a NY Times article on computing being cool (again), including a shout-out to Harvard's own CS 50 and of course the Social Network...
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2012 PCs
In an effort to return to normalcy, I find myself agreeing to serve on PCs again this year. NSDI 2012 call for papers is up. Dina Katabi and Steve Gribble went...
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ITCS
I was asked to post the call for papers for the (renamed) Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference. (I'm glad they finally changed the name -- see...
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FCRC Continued
I've been enjoying FCRC; of course, I like large conferences where lots of people show, as long as they're run well. Rooms have been pretty full at the talks,...
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Harvard CS Hires (2011 Edition)
At FCRC, I'm getting asked a lot about hiring. Our hiring season still isn't quite yet finished, but I'm going to go ahead and announce three new faculty who will...
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FCRC : Awards Banquet
I got to FCRC a little early to attend the ACM Awards Reception and Banquet. (Les Valiant nicely put my name on a list.) For more on the awards you can also go...
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Justin's Poster at FCRC
Justin Thaler, a student I'm advising (or, quite arguably, the other way around), will be at the poster session for STOC, ready to talk about a bunch of his currently...
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Deletion Channel Pointer : Kanoria and Montanari
For those half a dozen of us in the world who care about the deletion channel (and perhaps I'm overcounting), I'm a bit late in pointing to the now available extended...
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Annual Facing the Reviews
Teaching reviews for spring (Algorithms and Data Structures) came in today; time to face the music once again.Actually, this year, my numbers were up substantially...
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NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)
As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disallow teaching. So I was please...
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Serving Non-Majors in CS Classes
At the end of the year, I gave a short in-house presentation highlighting some aspects of the state of CS at Harvard. In gathering data, one thing that struckDavid...
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Daily Updates
Getting slowly back into blogging, some happenings from the day.I've gotten a couple of nice notes from students saying they learned a lot from my class this semester...
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Back to Blogging
I've given my final, and have grades ready to submit. The semester is over! Over the summer I may do some blogging again, as I may have time for it. I was noticing...
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