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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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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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Aldous/Diaconis: Longest Increasing Subsequences
For some research I'm currently doing, I ran across a truly wonderful "old" paper,Longest increasing subsequences: from patience sorting to the Baik-Deift-Johansson...
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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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