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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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Conference Attendance : How to Keep it Strong?
In honor of the STOC business meeting coming up shortly: STOC, CCC, and EC are all apparently poised to have very strong attendance this year -- from what I understand...
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Announcement: Matt Welsh Tenured
I'm very, very pleased to announce that Matt Welsh's Harvard tenure case has been successful. There's a number of wonderful things I could say about Matt andthe...
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SIGCOMM Travel Grants
I was asked by the SIGCOMM program chairs to remind everyone that there are travel grants available, especially for students, postdocs, and junior faculty. Since...
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Will Google Buy ITA?
As long-time readers of the blog know, I am a fan of ITA software, the company with the fare-finding technology and search engine that powers Orbitz and several...
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What Work to Give Up?
I'm not yet sure how many hours a week being a Chair (oops, "Area Dean") will chew up, but I think it's safe to say it will be a non-trivial number. I'm generally...
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Bertinoro Day 3
Since I left, Andrew McGregor tool over and has posted a summary of day 3 on his polylogblog, which is also now added (at the top!) on the bloglist at the right...
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Bertinoro, Day 2
Bertinoro is a really beautiful city. I just felt like saying that.Today's talks: Geppino Pucci talked about Bluetooth networks, modeled as a variation of random...
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Personal News : "New Job"
Since it's more or less been publicly announced at this point, I may as well announce it here: starting July 1, I'll be the new Area Dean for Computer Scienceunlike...
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Blogging from Bertinoro
I'm here at Bertinoro (a beautiful, out-of-the-way, small town in Italy) for the 2010 version of Random GRAALS (= graphs and algorithms), a workshop that we'vestandard...
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Extension Results
At the start of semester, at one point I had 48 people signed up for my extension Algorithms and Data Structures course, which I said from day one would not last...
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Giving in to Student Demands
I received my student reviews today, and while I could easily post days' worth of discussions on them, suffice to say there's a non-trivial minority of students...
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Links to Look At
Matt Welsh has what he tells me is his most-read post ever about The Secret Lives of Professors. I'll help promote it here, but save my commentary for the comments...
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Grade Inflation?
I know Harvard is supposed to be famous for its grade inflation, but that's not generally the case in my class (and, I think, for our CS classes in general). Having...
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ACM elections reminder
I was asked to remind everyone that if they want to vote on the ACM elections, the deadline is May 24th. Here is the official ACM election page. You might note...
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Harvard News Items
Some highlights: 1) From the Crimson: "An undergraduate has been dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into online accounts of the teaching staff...
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Robobees Redux
While I intentionally try to avoid the political on this blog, I did make an exception previously when I heard that the Harvard Robobees project had made #1 onthe...
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The Value of Experiments
Several days ago Lance wrote about "Is Complexity Math or Science?", and in that context wrote "We don't do experiments...", which has caused me to overreact.I'm...
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Another Book on Networks
Another book on networks, namely Networks: An Introduction, by Mark Newman, will be available in about a week or so. Mark is known to many in the networking community...
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Complexity of Distributed Systems, Market Crash Style
Apparently, the stock market crash of 5/6/10 was not, as originally thought, due to a "standard" human/computer error where someone meant to sell a million shared...
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