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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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Annual Facing the Reviews
Teaching reviews for spring (Algorithms and Data Structures) came in today; time to face the music once again.Actually, this year, my numbers were up substantially...
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NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)
As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disallow teaching. So I was please...
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Going Public
What a day! I’ve been excited about LinkedIn from the moment I joined — and for several years before that — but today has been a unique experience. I hope our celebration...
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Serving Non-Majors in CS Classes
At the end of the year, I gave a short in-house presentation highlighting some aspects of the state of CS at Harvard. In gathering data, one thing that struckDavid...
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Daily Updates
Getting slowly back into blogging, some happenings from the day.I've gotten a couple of nice notes from students saying they learned a lot from my class this semester...
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In Search Of Structure
A couple of weeks ago, I participated in a summit that Greylock Partners organized for its portfolio companies at LinkedIn to discuss the power of data. Invited...
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Back to Blogging
I've given my final, and have grades ready to submit. The semester is over! Over the summer I may do some blogging again, as I may have time for it. I was noticing...
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Announcing HCIR 2011!
As regular readers know, I’ve been co-organizing annual workshops on
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CFP: IEEE Internet Computing Special Issue on Context-Aware Computing
Pankaj Mehra and I are guest editors for an upcoming special issue of
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Harvard CS -- Growth in Women Majors
Some good news for us. With the growth in our introductory course, more women are declaring Computer Science as their concentration. And we seem to be growing...
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Identifying Influencers on Twitter
One of the perks of working at LinkedIn is being surrounded by intellectually curious colleagues. I recently joined a reading group and signed up to lead our discussion...
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Social Utility, +/- 25%
I like Google… I’ve been a regular Google user since the day I first discovered its existence in 1999. Indeed, I’ve consistently found Google to be the most useful...
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Guest Blog: Data 2.0 Conference Report
Note: This post was written by Scott Nicholson, a Senior Data Scientist at LinkedIn. Scott is data and modeling geek with a passion for startups, product and user...
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Harry Lewis Asking Tough Questions (Again)
Harry Lewis is asking Harvard to confront the issue of some of Harvard's professors being involved in money-making opportunities, like working for Libyan dictators...
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Did the NSF Just Do Something Really Stupid Misguided?
To begin, as I always do when I write about the NSF, let me start by saying that I love the NSF, and I greatly appreciate all the research funding they give me. ...
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More on Academic Communications
UW Madison has responded to the Open Records Request regarding Professor Cronon (which I mentioned here). Here's a link to the Chancellor's message as well asUW...
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Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts
While I've successfully resisted urges to return to blogging, I wanted to point to something. For those who might have missed this, I encourage you to go read William...
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Steal These Ideas!
Talk is cheap, as the saying goes. That’s a good thing, since I am always overflowing with ideas that I have neither the time (I love my day job!) nor the money...
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