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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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Giving a Teleseminar
The nice folks at Texas A&M asked me to give a teleseminar as part of their series. So instead of flying all the way to Texas to give a talk, I did so from the...
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Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call
Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs! Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp...
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HCIR 2012: A Personal Report
Human-computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study of information retrieval techniques that integrate human intelligence and algorithmic search to help people...
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Allerton Panel
This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website). Hard to believe it's been around that long. I think my first...
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Harvard CS Is Hiring
Tenure Track Position Open. Here's the official blurb:Tenure-track Position in Computer ScienceThe Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks...
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Office Hours at Cambridge Brewing Company
I’ll be in Cambridge, MA this Thursday and Friday for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2012). Hope to see many...
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HCIR 2012 Symposium: Oct 4-5 in Cambridge, MA
It’s the event you’ve been waiting for: the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval! HCIR 2012 will take place October 4th and 5th...
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Student Bragging....
Always worth bragging about my students...Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Failure Probability" (with me, Michael...
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LinkedIn Presentations at RecSys 2012
LinkedIn showed up in force at the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012)! Here are the slides from all of our presentations. Daniel...
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RecSys 2012: Beyond Five Stars
I spent the past week in Dublin attending the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2012). This young conference has become the premier...
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By the Numbers
Pretty much matching my predictions....My graduate course has 50 enrolled right now, fairly close to 50-50 between undergrads and grads.Salil's introductory complexity...
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Happiness Is...
NSF saying yes to your grant... (Isn't that one of the lyrics?)Once again, thanks to the NSF, I get to remain in business* for the next 3-4 years or so. (Arguably...
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Content, Connections, and Context
This is keynote presentation I delivered at the Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web, held as part of the 6th ACM International Conference on Recommender...
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But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
First day of lecture for CS 222, Algorithms at the End of the Wire. They stuck me in a classroom that holds 20 comfortably, and 25 or so can be done. I'm pretty...
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LinkedIn at RecSys 2012
LinkedIn is an industry leader in the area of recommender systems – a place where big data meets clever algorithms and content meets social. If you’re one of the...
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Uncertainty
There's an interesting new article on the Gov 1310 case* on the Crimson yesterday, titled Students Accused in Cheating Scandal Frustrated by Uncertain Process....
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Honor Codes?
A further interesting question that has come out of the as-of-yet alleged cheating scandal at Harvard is whether Harvard should have an honor code. The question...
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Max Flows in O(nm) Time by Orlin
Just saw Suresh point to this talk (and paper) about a new result for max flows in O(nm) time by James Orlin. I'm listening to the talk he has on line this afternoon...
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Academic Dishonesty Cases
I have a bunch of half-written blog posts, none of which I have felt pressed to finish, so the blog has languished over the summer. But then, something has come...
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