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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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SIGCOMM papers
A commenter asked me a while back to say what I thought of the SIGCOMM submissions this year. I'm finally getting around to reading and reviewing. (First round...
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Congratulations to David Johnson, Knuth Prize Winner
I'm pleased to hear that David Johnson has won the Knuth Prize for "his contributions to theoretical and experimental analysis of algorithms." David has done a...
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Teaching Bloom Filters
As I finished my lecture today for my undergraduate algorithms and data structures course, after spending about half an hour explaining Bloom filters and what they...
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Stuff in press
The Economist has a special section this month devoted to The Data Deluge. (Much of it may still be behind their firewall.) Many computer scientists are quoted...
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Conflicts of Interest, Yet Again
I was just asked to serve on the ACM CoNEXT 2010 PC (I'll have to think about it -- NSDI,SIGCOMM, and CoNEXT all in one year?), and the chairs (Muriel Medard and...
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STOC Budget Questions
I hate to follow the interesting conversations on FOCS/STOC/SODA (please keep commenting) with the mundane, but Lance forced me asked me to be General Chair for...
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Guest Post from David Karger
Continuing from my last "controversial" post, David Karger offered the following long comment, turned into a guest post:------------I wanted to post a comment on...
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FOCS/STOC : What's the Big Deal?
As mentioned recently, the FOCS submission site is now up, and STOC acceptances have come out. Related blog posts have arrived, including an amusing one by Dick...
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News Roundup
This just in -- computer science students at Stanford cheat! I love this quote: "Historically, the computer science department accounts for between 20 to 60 percent...
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FOCS 2010 Call for Papers is Up
Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010. Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there's no page limit on submissions...
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Recent Award for Network Coding
I opened the January issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and saw (what is probably old news to everyone) that Tracey Ho, Muriel Medard, Ralf Kotter...
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 3
I am back from WSDM and I have to say all in all it was a great experience. I think my talk went fairly well although I can see some ways in which it could have...
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 2
Day two of WSDM was highlighted by two great presentations which I enjoyed for different reasons. I think the strong features of both could be incorporated in almost...
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM
Since I couldn't get myself to New York for WSDM, I asked my student Giorgos Zervas to report. This is his report from Thursday.-----------------------Greetings...
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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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