From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
If you've been reading the other computer science blogs, you know that there are some new books out. First is the Golden Ticket, by Lance Fortnow, about the P vs...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 29, 2013 at 01:11 AM
I'm off to a meeting next week, so today was my last day of class for Computer Science 124 (Algorithms and Data Structures) for the semester. For two reasons,...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 25, 2013 at 06:42 PM
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Michael asked me and Mark to write a post on our paper "Dual...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 22, 2013 at 06:43 PM
Luca Aceto reported the paper awards for ICALP 2013. But I find it necessary to give a special shout-out to Harvard Ph.D. students Mark Bun and Justin Thaler,Dual...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 18, 2013 at 03:20 PM
[Mikkel Thorup graciously has offered a guest blog post, discussing what he looks for in conference papers, and possible implications for refereeing.] Results versus...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 9, 2013 at 08:28 PM
I've been asked to post for some upcoming events. The Simons Institute will have a multi-day symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing May 29-31, just before...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 4, 2013 at 09:26 PM
Yesterday was the long-awaited faculty meeting after the news that Harvard had examined the e-mail (metadata) of the Resident Deans looking for a leak of what was...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 3, 2013 at 06:05 PM
Thank goodness it's Harvard's vacation week.Otherwise, the rioting would have been unbearable. Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 22, 2013 at 11:37 AM
I was asked to advertise the upcoming Second Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day (CAEC'13);information is available at http://caec.seas.harvard.edu/It's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 19, 2013 at 03:32 PM
Well, this is going to give me nightmares for a while. TechNewsWorld:"Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 19, 2013 at 12:55 AM
I realize the times they-are-a-changing, and so maybe I shouldn't find this unusual, but...Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas put up a Kickstarter campaign to raise 2Done...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 14, 2013 at 02:02 AM
Got in the office this morning and heard about the latest Turing Award: Congrats to Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali! (Press release.) Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 13, 2013 at 07:43 PM
Groupon has been in the news lately -- something about their CEO leaving, I hear. And Giorgos Zervas has been out giving talks. (He's a great speaker. You should...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 12, 2013 at 03:57 PM
Harvard's name, obviously, still sells newspapers. The "e-mailgate" scandal of the past few days has been appearing everywhere. I was contacted multiple times...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 12, 2013 at 03:55 PM
Given the hubbub that arose this weekend over the issue of Harvard examining the e-mail of some of the Resident Deans, it's gratifying (if unsurprising) that this...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 11, 2013 at 03:00 PM
A strange offshoot of the Harvard cheating scandal -- a report in the Boston Globe that Harvard administrators decided it was OK to search through Resident Dean...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 10, 2013 at 05:42 AM
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Back when I started at Harvard, people would literally say things to me like, "I didn't know Harvard had computer science." Now I could just point such people here...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 4, 2013 at 01:35 PM
Joan Feigenbaum is the Program Committee Chair for STOC 2013, where papers decisions were recently announced; I served as part of the Executive Committee. Joan...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 27, 2013 at 02:21 PM
Given the loud outcry regarding the STOC 2013 formatting, which gave you 10 double-column pages to work with (at the cost of, you know, having to turn your paper...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | February 15, 2013 at 12:04 AM