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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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Harry Lewis Asking Tough Questions (Again)
Harry Lewis is asking Harvard to confront the issue of some of Harvard's professors being involved in money-making opportunities, like working for Libyan dictators...
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Did the NSF Just Do Something Really Stupid Misguided?
To begin, as I always do when I write about the NSF, let me start by saying that I love the NSF, and I greatly appreciate all the research funding they give me. ...
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More on Academic Communications
UW Madison has responded to the Open Records Request regarding Professor Cronon (which I mentioned here). Here's a link to the Chancellor's message as well asUW...
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Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts
While I've successfully resisted urges to return to blogging, I wanted to point to something. For those who might have missed this, I encourage you to go read William...
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Spring Semester Update
I see it's been two months since my last post. I must admit, there are times I miss blogging. I've often felt I have something interesting to post about, butClaire...
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End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)
I last posted on Lance's blog about two months ago, so it seems a good time for an update.My class is (hooray!) finished. I've sent out grades to the students,...
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Guest Post over at Computational Complexity Blog
For those still receiving this feed, I have a guest post briefly describing some aspects of life as Area Dean over at the Computational Complexity blog.
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Blog Retrospective
I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment. Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequent and opinionatedKleinberg's...
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Doing the Right Thing? (Quick Links Edition)
From Shots in the Dark, a pointer to a new "feature" -- apparently, there's not a tweet system recording and listing books checked out from Harvard libraries. Marc...
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Conference/Journal Versions -- Transactions on Networking
I was recently asked to review a paper for Transactions on Networking, and noticed the following bit in the e-mail?Please note that while this paper may have had...
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Various Quick Pointers, Redux
There were many interesting things at the CRA Snowbird conference for CS chairs (which I missed...), but I haven't heard any blog-level discussion of their call...
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How's that New Job Treating You? Edition
I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended. That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1. Also nicely, from the count on the right, I'mreally...
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RATS roundup
I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS. There was a brief introduction by Chris...
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MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution
Wow. After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made an announcement...
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Various Quick Pointers
While it may not be news elsewhere, I'm certainly interested in the "local" case of Marc Hauser, the evolutionary psychologist at Harvard whose work has been "under...
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In Need of a Few Bad Papers
For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...
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STOC tutorial online
Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online. You can find them here.
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Monkey Business
I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...
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