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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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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
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
Back in July I took part in the Hashing Summer School in Copenhagen. This was nominally set up by me, Rasmus Pagh, and Mikkel Thorup, though Mikkel was reallycourse...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 21, 2014 at 09:45 AM
I'm just about finished reviewing for CoNEXT (Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies), and am starting reviewing for ITCS (Innovations in...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 19, 2014 at 04:36 PM
Harvard classes start up in a few weeks, and officially, my sabbatical is over. I'm back in my office, trying to get back into a Harvard routine.I notice thatAnalysis...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 18, 2014 at 11:21 AM
For those of you going to SPAA this coming week, I'll see you there. I'll be giving the last two talks at the conference, to what I expect (based on the timing)...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 20, 2014 at 04:33 PM
It's that time of year where, as a background process, I have to do my annual reviews for the NSF. It's generally not a very exciting task, and their online forms...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 20, 2014 at 04:14 PM
I have just seen the news that Berthold Vöcking passed away. For those who didn't know him, Berthold was an oustanding researcher in algorithms. We had several...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 16, 2014 at 11:41 AM
Stuck on a flight home, I passed time reading a hotel copy of the Wall Street Journal, to find more interesting things than I would have thought.What first caught...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 31, 2014 at 11:16 PM
I was asked to announce the call for ITCS. Here is a link to the call for papers, with the most important info:ITCS (previously known as ICS) seeks to promote...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 28, 2014 at 11:24 AM
I saw this interesting article up on 20 questions with Don Knuth, worth reading just for the fun of it. But the following question on work in algorithm designThus...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 21, 2014 at 09:57 AM
Nick Feamster on Google+ recently shared (and gave me permission to blog about) the following review comment:This review comment is super enlightening:"I think...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 2, 2014 at 11:27 PM
I apologize for the short notice, but my occasional co-author Rasmus Pagh is looking for postdocs for a big data project he recently had funded, with an application...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 3, 2014 at 06:04 PM
Of the many, many interesting things happening in Copenhagen this summer (SEA, ICALP) we'd like to add one more: a Hashing Summer School at the University of Copenhagen...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 19, 2014 at 03:18 PM
In another sign that these Turing Award committees really know what they're doing, Leslie Lamport has won the Turing Award. There's a very nice writeup including...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 18, 2014 at 11:46 AM
I'll be commuting throughout the week to the ICERM Workshop on Stochastic Graph Models. ICERM is the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 17, 2014 at 04:39 PM
If you haven't yet, I encourage you to read the Inside Higher Ed article about a department that, when a candidate they had made an offer to attempted to negotiate...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 14, 2014 at 11:57 AM
Sadly, "The Professor", Russell Johnson, has passed away. I enjoyed Gilligan's Island as a kid. I can't help but think that his portrayal deeply affected people's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 16, 2014 at 11:36 PM
My brother pointed me to this article on a great exchange of tweets about the origins of Netscape. The two highlights, for me at least. First, Andreessen expressed...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 14, 2014 at 09:27 AM