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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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Admissions Handling
I've been spending time on both graduate admissions and undergraduate admissions.For graduate admissions, we've moved to an all-electronic system; the applications...
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Does Class Size Matter?
Preliminary stats show 55 students in my algorithms course. That's probably close to the mean and slightly above the median. It's certainly not the largest course...
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Justifying Growth : We Need Better PR...
Background: As part of the "getting a new Dean" process, we're undergoing a "make a 5 year plan" process. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)...
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Paper updates
We updated our Swoopo paper, Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank, mostly making small writing improvements and typo fixes that...
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Teaching, Day One
First day of classes for me today. It's "spring", sort of, so I must be teaching Algorithms and Data Structures.Last year there were about 80 students in the class...
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On Formatting
Matt Welsh's recent amusing-but-also-sad post on having two recent conference submissions rejected for violating format requirements reminded me how much I hate...
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Housework
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article up titled Time Crunch for Female Scientists : They Do More Housework Than Men. Worth reading, understanding, and...
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New TCS postdocs/jobs website at CCI
There's a new page http://intractibility.princeton.edu/jobs/ that was set up as a centralized location for advertising postdocs and jobs for theoretical computer...
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Letters and Rights
I generally assume students know to waive their rights to look at a letter of recommendation when they ask me to write one, but I recently ran into a student that...
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Algorithms and Data Structures : Course Goals
Richard Lipton has an excellent blog post up right now on "What should a course on complexity theory cover?" where he describes what he is putting in his graduate...
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New Harry Lewis Opinion at HuffPo
Harry Lewis has a new opinion piece up at Huffington Post. The title,Larry Summers, Robert Rubin : Will The Harvard Shadow Elite Bankrupt The University And The...
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Visiting Dartmouth for a Research Symposium
I spent the day at Dartmouth, as I was asked to be "keynote speaker" for their Computer Science Annual Research Symposium. Essentially, it's their own mini-conference...
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New Paper: Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions
I'm happy to announce a new paper that answers, among other questions, how I spent a huge chunk of my winter holiday break. The paper is by me, John Byers, and...
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How Much Grading Should Professors Do?
One of the outcomes of the Harvard budget crisis is that the budget for Teaching Assistants has been brought into line. At Harvard, we've been ridiculously spoiled...
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New Year's Again
It's time for the annual New Year posting. Last year, I talked about the potential power of affirmations -- in the sense of thinking about concrete goals you hope...
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New Result : Tight Asymptotic Bounds for the Deletion Channel with Small Deletion Probabilities
Posting will be light over winter break, in part because so little is going on, but more because I'm busy working on papers for upcoming deadlines. I'll describe...
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Text-book Algorithms at SODA (Guest Post, Mikkel Thorup)
Mikkel Thorup sent in the following guest post:Text-book algorithms at SODAThis is a pitch for promoting good text-book algorithms at SODA. Erdos promoted book...
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Avoiding Travel
I'm spending the morning as part of the committee for a thesis defense over in Europe. I'm watching the talk over Skype; we're using a conference call for sound...
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LiveBlogging NSDI PC Meeting
My post today is live-blogging the NSDI PC Meeting -- with a delay for security purposes, of course.My take on the reviews (and from past experience) is that the...
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