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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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Important IP Case
For those of you not following the Apple-Samsung case going on right now, it's fascinating. Since I do expert witness work, it's interesting to me from that perspective...
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Mail Issue
Last week I had an issue where I sent an e-mail to someone (non-work-related), and a while later got the response forwarded to me from my wife, with a note that...
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Distracting Videos
Jeff Erickson gets the blame for pointing out this amusing/disturbing video on counting. I feel like I should make it a background video before my undergraduate...
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Article about DEC Folk
Interesting Wired article talking about a bunch of people I worked with back when I was at Digital Systems Research Center, and their big effect on Google. It's...
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Like a Movie Meteor...
The new semester is hurtling toward me.This semester I get to teach one of my graduate courses, the one I named Algorithms at the End of the Wire sometime over...
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Hiring: Taking It Personally
As a manager, I’ve found that I mostly have two jobs: bringing great people onto the team, and creating the conditions for their success. The second job is the...
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Upcoming Conferences: RecSys, HCIR, CIKM
Long-time readers know that I have strong opinions about academic conferences. I find the main value of conferences and workshops to be facilitating face-to-face...
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Yale Daily News, continued
I pointed to this article in the Yale Daily News about computer science when it came out in April. Giorgos just pointed me back to it again, and I'd have to say...
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MMDS
I'm hanging out at MMDS -- the Workshop on Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets at Stanford. The crowd is surprisingly huge, with a greater number of peopleProbabilistic...
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HCIR 2012 Challenge: People Search
As we get ready for the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval this October in Cambridge, MA, people around the world are working...
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On NPR (Morning Edition)
Groupon is being discussed on NPR (Morning Edition), which means we get a phone call again. Our graphs are reproduced on the site, and John Byers speaks for us...
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Anniversary
Today I get to celebrate that I'm two years done with my three year stint as "Area Dean for Computer Science" (chair). Whoever the new person is, they're supposed...
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RecSys 2012 Industry Track
I’m proud to be co-organizing the RecSys 2012 Industry Track with Yehuda Koren. Check out the line-up: Ronny Kohavi (Microsoft), Keynote Online Controlled Experiments...
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Simons Institute Call
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the call at http://simons.berkeley.edu/cfp_summer2012.html for the Call for Proposals for Simons Institute programs. The deadline...
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Information Cascades, Revisited
A couple of years ago, I blogged about an information cascade problem I’d read about in
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New SIGACT Officers
Lance informs me we have newly elected officers at SIGACT.Chair: Paul BeameMembers-at-Large:Venkatesan GuruswamiRocco ServedioAvrim BlumTal RabinCongratulations...
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Mihai Memorial Blog
I received the following note from Mikkel Thorup and Alexandr Andoni.I believe it's appropriate to share:Dear friends of Mihai,We made a blog in Mihai's memory....
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Scale, Structure, and Semantics
This morning I had the pleasure to present a keynote address at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz). I’ve had a long and warm relationship...
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Sad Passing: Mihai Patrascu
Mikkel Thorup just sent me the following to post regarding Mihai Patrascu. ---------------Mihai Patrascu, aged 29, passed away on Tuesday June 5, 2012, after a1...
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