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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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The madness that is the CS50 Fair at Harvard is going on now. Hundreds of students demo-ing their final projects. If you can't be there, you can watchthe live...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 8, 2014 at 01:20 PM
As mentioned previously, our current Dean for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cherry Murray, will be stepping down at the end of the year.The good...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 2, 2014 at 03:02 PM
Continuing the good news at Harvard, word has been given that Eddie Kohler has officially been offered tenure. So we hope/expect/are excited about keeping Eddie...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 24, 2014 at 01:50 PM
Harvard Computer Science was given a sizable gift from Steve Ballmer; we're excited at the opportunity to grow this gift will provide us over the next severalthe...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 13, 2014 at 10:18 AM
Veterans Day is a federal holiday, but, at Harvard classes go on. This year, the holiday is observed for staff, but we'll be teaching.I can't easily find out when...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 10, 2014 at 09:54 PM
A variety of links on related news.Ebola #1 (local): The HackEbola with Data website gives detail for the upcoming Harvard Hacking event in conjunction with Statistics...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 1, 2014 at 03:05 PM
Like many (theoretical) computer scientists, I spent far, far too much time this weekend thinking about rankings. Well, really, it was more that I was being far...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 28, 2014 at 11:51 AM
You might wonder why I am welcoming attorneys to the blog. Well, I happen to know that some attorneys read my blog. I know this because recently, as an expert...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 27, 2014 at 03:47 PM
Harvard Computer Science is doing a junior faculty search this year. We pretty much have been doing one every year, but it's nice to be able to make an announcement...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 24, 2014 at 02:46 PM
An upcoming paper appearing at CoNext will be of interest to any Bloom Filter user or aficionado:Cuckoo Filter: Practically Better than Bloom(Bin Fan, David Andersen...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 22, 2014 at 02:17 PM
Andreessen Horowitz had a second Academic Roundtable, gathering together academics, VCs, and people in startups to talk for a few days about a variety of topics...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 3, 2014 at 06:44 PM
I'm one of those professor types that ends up defending the joys of life as an academic versus a career in industry -- some of you who read this blog have probably...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 18, 2014 at 06:48 PM
The Crimson has an op-ed on simultaneous enrollment, that I agree with.Harvard does not like simultaneous enrollment, which means a student taking two classes...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 15, 2014 at 02:58 AM
Preliminary course enrollment numbers are in. Our new theory course, CS 125 (rapid introduction to theory), has 32 undergrads and 5 others, for an enrollment of...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 11, 2014 at 02:05 PM
An interesting article in today's Crimson about the background to the announcement that Harvard's School of Public Health will be re-named the Harvard T. H. Chan...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 10, 2014 at 09:00 PM
For many years now, while teaching the introductory Algorithms and Data Structures, I have told students that we won't be starting with (or really covering) sorting...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 7, 2014 at 10:08 PM
A shout-out today to my friend and colleague Pardis Sabeti (and her lab) for their Science article on the Ebola virus that appeared earlier today. Pardis and her...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 28, 2014 at 11:42 PM
I am happy to have an update on the SOCG/STOC colocation issue that arose last week. Or, better said, Jeff Erickson has an update, the short summary of which is...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 27, 2014 at 01:44 PM
We recently put on arxiv a new draft on "Theoretical Foundations of Equitability and the Maximal Information Coefficient". This is some follow-on work to a paper...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 26, 2014 at 06:41 PM
Friday afternoon Jeff Erickson posted at Making SOCG blog some "bad news". Some background: very recently, the Symposium on Computational Geometry, or SoCG, decided...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 23, 2014 at 11:17 AM