From Schneier on Security
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
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
If you haven't seen it, there's a well-written piece on Bob Swartz, father of Aaron Swartz, in Boston Magazine, covering MIT's reaction to Aaron Swartz's case.Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 6, 2014 at 09:22 AM
'Tis the season when graduate applications are being decided as well as the job interview process starting again, and just in time for the new year, your regularly...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 5, 2014 at 03:38 PM
This year, (allegedly) a Harvard student performed the modern equivalent of pulling a fire alarm in order to avoid a final exam, in this case by sending an e-mail...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 19, 2013 at 12:37 AM
Saturday I took two of my daughters to see a musical at Harvard. Amazingly, in the small theater, we were in front of a pair of students who seemed intent on talking...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 9, 2013 at 03:23 PM
Pre-term planning numbers are in for Harvard, and it looks like the undergrad Algorithms and Data Structures class has about 175 people planning to take the course...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 4, 2013 at 07:32 PM
There's been plenty of interesting stuff popping up in the news, so it's time to collect a bit.This article describes a current patent case in cryptography, where...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 26, 2013 at 02:25 PM
In the past year or so, I've gotten reviews back on multiple papers with the complaint that the result was too simple. My interpretation of review: sure you might...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 18, 2013 at 01:25 PM
Before returning home last week I spent a day at UC Davis giving a talk. I got the spend the day talking to various people I've collaborated with there (likeRaissa...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 29, 2013 at 09:32 AM
I've been visiting the Simons Institute for one of their workshops the last few days. I got my advisor Alistair Sinclair to give me a tour. I have to say, that's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 24, 2013 at 01:26 PM
I was impressed how quickly the NSF got Fastlane back online. (I think it was turned on a few hours after the shutdown was ended.) But like many people, I'm awaiting...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 20, 2013 at 10:35 AM
Alistair Sinclair asked me to post a note about the Simons Research Fellowships positions at Berkeley. But since that's where Justin Thaler (my now-ex student)...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM
At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see past post), there was various advice, some of it contradictory, for professor-types interested in startingAMPLab...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 2, 2013 at 08:54 PM
At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table (see last post), the issue of how to promote student entrepreneurship through the curriculum arose. The VCs athttp...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 1, 2013 at 07:32 AM
I've spent the last couple of days attending the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table. Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 30, 2013 at 09:31 AM
Giorgos Zervas is in the news again (with Michael Luca of Harvard Business School), this time for his work on filtered/fake Yelp reviews. See also this piece in...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 28, 2013 at 12:45 AM
It's always nice to see a computer scientist be on the list for an award that spans over multiple disciplinary areas. This year, we get to congratulate Dina Katabi...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 27, 2013 at 12:41 PM
A pun title, relating to two quick things.First, I had the wonderful experience of getting to see (through a special deal set up by Harvard's faculty development...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 19, 2013 at 10:58 PM
Justin Thaler, after presenting his most recent work on verifiable computation at Crypto, decided to write up a mini-survey on recent work in the area, and he offered...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 6, 2013 at 08:25 PM
As I go through the reviews from my latest NSF proposal, there are general high-level comments related to my past work. This leads to an interesting and perhaps...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 1, 2013 at 10:31 AM