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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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Poll : Conference Acceptances
Consider your favorite conference(s). Do you think they're accepting too many papers, too few, or just right? (With SIGCOMM decisions out, STOC/EC/CCC coming...
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SIGCOMM PC, Not Liveblogging
I am absolutely, positively, not liveblogging from the SIGCOMM PC, as that is, I am rightly told, a bad idea. But these are my impressions after the fact. (I'm...
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The Computer Science Ecosystem
Inspired a bit by some inspirational, high-level talks I've seen the last few days (see Matt's take on Ed Lazowska's talk at Harvard here), I've been thinking about...
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Should There Be a "PostDoc Registration" Rate?
Most every computer science conference has (at least) two rates for registration: students and other. Ostensibly, this is because we want to encourage student...
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Conference Registration Deadlines (and Fees)
I'm spending the morning registering for conferences. STOC early deadline is April 30, ISIT is May 1, and EC is May 6. I'm sure there are others coming up. Remember...
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Last Day of Class!
Sometimes, I think the students are so excited about the end of classes, they don't realize that it's almost equally exciting for the faculty. While I enjoy teaching...
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Random Links for the Day
FemaleScienceProfessor tells an Evil Reviewer story. The CRA blog tells us that DARPA is back, in terms of funding university research. Ed Lazowska has related...
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Advisors and Publications
There have been several interesting comments regarding the student/advisor relationship on my previous posts (here, here, and here) on co-authorship. It's clearly...
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Should Harvard's Intro CS Class Do Away with Grades
There's been discussions of late on the possibility of offering our intro CS class in two flavors -- a "graded" and "SAT/UNSAT" version. (Same class, just twoVolatile...
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Guest Post : Justin Thaler/New Paper
I'm happy to introduce Justin Thaler, a first-year graduate student at Harvard that I'm advising. You can find out more about Justin at his home page. Justin"Streaming...
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Bursts -- a new Barabasi book
At the end of the month, Barabasi's new book, entitled Bursts: The Hidden Pattern Behind Everything We Do, will be released. Here's the pre-order Amazon link,a...
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What's the Co-Author Line?
Continuing the past discussion on authorship issues, I've been considering the questions: at what point has a person involved in the project done so little work...
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Crimson Article on Women in Computer Science
From a few days ago: Computer Science at Harvard Sees Large Gender ImbalanceIt's listed as a news article, although I don't think this is news. It is something...
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More on Authorship
My last post, on what I called "60-40" papers, where one author does non-trivially more of the work than the other(s), seems to have generated some interesting"Author...
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60-40 papers
A recent paper I worked on was a 60-40 paper. That's what I call it when one of the authors does noticeably more of the work. Really, it could be a 70-30 paper...
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Sexual Harassment Policies (Yale v. Harvard)
My brother, in what I assume is a blatant attempt to be mentioned in this blog (Hi Steve!!!), sent me a link to the following article about a new rule (or, as...
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NSF Review Issues
My understanding is that the turnaround time on NSF decisions should be approximately 6 months. (See, for instance, their own diagram of the review process.) ...
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Energy Sustainability
I spent an entertaining hour this afternoon listening to David MacKay of Cambridge (UK) give a talk about the Future of Energy here at Harvard. I've mentionedAmazon...
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Two Inspiring Posts
Inspiring me to blog, that is....Matt blogs about the psychology of program committees. It's one of those things that would be funny except that it's true. So...
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