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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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ITCS Review
The list of accepted papers for ITCS (Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science) is up. Some thoughts:1) I have expressed reservations in the past about ITCS...
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HCIR 2011: We Have Arrived!
If you followed the #hcir2011 tweet stream, then you already know what I have to say: the Fifth Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval...
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An Apple a Day
Reviewing papers for a conference is a slow, time-consuming process. Suppose you had 20 reviews due and about 4 weeks to do them. What's your approach?I take...
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John Byers on WBUR
Listening to my co-author, John Byers, streamed live on WBUR, discussing our work on Groupon. Ben Edelman is another participant in the show.Here's the link. ...
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Listen
A colleague outside theory (but inside computer science) recently brought up an interesting question with me that seemed like a possible research-level issue. LogP...
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Reading Confidence Men
My current spare time reading* is Confidence Men, Ron Suskind's book on Wall Street and the Presidency. Without "taking sides" with regard to Larry Summers, IMockingjay...
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Submissions, A Comparison
I just got my set of NSDI papers to review, and have been looking them over.One thing that immediately strikes me as I give them a first quick pass is how nice...
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Goodbye to Steve Jobs
My Mac laptop froze today. It was an unusual occurrence; I turned the machine off, and for a minute it wouldn't turn back on again. I was in a panic. Then it...
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New York Times
Our work on daily deals is mentioned and linked to in Sunday's New York Times business section. (John Byers even got a quote in!) It was also mentioned in this...
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Keeping It Professional: Relevance, Recommendations, and Reputation at LinkedIn
Last week, I delivered the following presentation at the CMU Intelligence Seminar: I had a great audience, including the department head! Of course that meant...
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Allerton Part 2 : Venue Change?
Yesterday, I thought the best talks I saw were by Devavrat Shah and Dina Katabi.Dev was talking about how to track where rumors start. The model is you have aproject...
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Allerton 2011
I woke up at an absurdly early hour this morning to get on a plane and go to the Allerton conference. I'm giving a talk this afternoon on Invertible Bloom Lookup...
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Set Competition
As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set. (See my previous...
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Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop
I'm just off a plane coming home from the Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop at Stanford. It went really well, and I really enjoyed it.I think a variety of things...
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Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)
GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth...
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Travels and Teaching
I'll be at the Beyond Worst Case Analysis workshop next week, and Allerton the week after. For each, I'll have to miss a class. I also have some other travels...
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This Week, I Am Part of an Internet Meme
My frequent co-authors John Byers, Giorgos Zervas, and I posted an extended version of a current submission to the arxiv (as people do), which showed up last Friday...
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