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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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FOCS 2010 Call for Papers is Up
Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010. Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there's no page limit on submissions...
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Recent Award for Network Coding
I opened the January issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and saw (what is probably old news to everyone) that Tracey Ho, Muriel Medard, Ralf Kotter...
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 3
I am back from WSDM and I have to say all in all it was a great experience. I think my talk went fairly well although I can see some ways in which it could have...
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Vacation
Just letting readers know that I’ll be on vacation for the next week. If you are starved for reading materials, check out some of the blogs I read.
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WSDM 2010: Day 3
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today is the last day of
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WSDM 2010: Day 2
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Unfortunately, I woke up this morning rather under the weather, so I’m having to resort to remotely reporting on the...
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 2
Day two of WSDM was highlighted by two great presentations which I enjoyed for different reasons. I think the strong features of both could be incorporated in almost...
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM
Since I couldn't get myself to New York for WSDM, I asked my student Giorgos Zervas to report. This is his report from Thursday.-----------------------Greetings...
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WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
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WSDM 2010: Day 1
Note: this post is cross-posted at BLOG@CACM. Today was the first day of the Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), held...
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Admissions Handling
I've been spending time on both graduate admissions and undergraduate admissions.For graduate admissions, we've moved to an all-electronic system; the applications...
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Report on the Third Workshop on Search and Social Media (SSM 2010)
Note: this post will also appear on BLOG@CACM. It is my pleasure to report on the 3rd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2010), a gathering of information...
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Blogging SSM 2010 and WSDM 2010
I’m delighted to report that I’ll be blogging about the Search and Social Media Workshop (SSM 2010) and the Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2010) for...
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Does Class Size Matter?
Preliminary stats show 55 students in my algorithms course. That's probably close to the mean and slightly above the median. It's certainly not the largest course...
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Blogs I Read: Search Facets
A couple of years ago, I started The Noisy Channel as a personal blog. Since my then-employer Endeca didn’t have a corporate blog, I became the company’s ambassador...
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LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood
Last week, I had the good fortune to attend a presentation by John Wang, search architect at LinkedIn. You may have read my earlier posts about LinkedIn introducing...
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Justifying Growth : We Need Better PR...
Background: As part of the "getting a new Dean" process, we're undergoing a "make a 5 year plan" process. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)...
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Paper updates
We updated our Swoopo paper, Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank, mostly making small writing improvements and typo fixes that...
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Teaching, Day One
First day of classes for me today. It's "spring", sort of, so I must be teaching Algorithms and Data Structures.Last year there were about 80 students in the class...
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