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I haven't posted for a while, primarily because I started by sabbatical by going to Copenhagen for most of August.  I was primarily visiting the IT University of...

Managing Your Advisor by Nick Feamster
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Managing Your Advisor by Nick Feamster

I thought Nick Feamster's post on managing your advisor was a good read and good advice for new graduate students.  In fact, I'd recommend undergraduates read it...

In Sickness...
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In Sickness...

One of the more amusing conversations at the social part of the Microsoft faculty summit (initiated by the humorous commentary of Kevin Leyton-Brown) started with...

Recent Random Musings
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Recent Random Musings

1)  Last week a key came off my daughter's Apple Macbook keyboard.  One of my keys on my machine had also come loose -- the "E" would pop out several times a day...

MS Faculty Summit Day Two
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MS Faculty Summit Day Two

Day Two of the summit started with a keynote shared between Peter Lee and Jeannette Wing, who now seem to be sharing heading up Microsoft research.  (Rick Rashid...

MS Faculty Summit Day One
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MS Faculty Summit Day One

Day one of the faculty summit was a great deal of fun.  Primarily, I found I enjoyed catching up with people -- I saw a number of past/current collaborators, as...

Sleeping in Seattle
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Sleeping in Seattle

Unless I'm asked not to, I'll try to live-blog a bit over the next few days from the Microsoft Faculty Summit.  It's my first time to this event.  I understand...

Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Links regarding David Petraeus's offer from CUNY to teach a course for $200,000.  (Or, maybe, now $150,000.  Who knows.)Gawker has a lot of info.  A letter from...

And Thanks for All the Fish, Altavista Version
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And Thanks for All the Fish, Altavista Version

All sorts of news about the plug finally being pulled on Altavista, which I still have an attachment to, being partially the product myself of DEC.  Here'snice. ...

And Thanks For All the Fish
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And Thanks For All the Fish

As my Area Administrator Tristen reminded me, "...today is officially your last day as my boss..."  Monday is July 1, which officially ends my term as Area Dean...

How Should We Choose Students?
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How Should We Choose Students?

Some of my previous posts have led me to think about the following -- something I'm hoping to write a longer piece about in the near future.In the past few weeks...

Valiant's Book Out:  Probably Approximately Correct
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Valiant's Book Out: Probably Approximately Correct

Les Valiant has a new book out:  Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex WorldI was sent a free copy last week...

Harvard Humanities
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Harvard Humanities

There's been a mild hubbub toward the end of the week here, due to a report and some articles (Boston Globe, WSJ) that the number of students majoring at the humanities...

NSF Reviewing Trial Run
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NSF Reviewing Trial Run

Noam Nisan points to the NSF trying out some new rules for reviewing in its upcoming SSS program.  There's a lot here to discuss.  First, I'm glad to see the NSF...

Review are In, 2013
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Review are In, 2013

Teaching reviews are in!  I'm happy to say students were more forgiving than last year.  But also, I notice in the reviews the effects of 4 significant changes...

An Unusual CS Student Blog
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An Unusual CS Student Blog

As I'm up working/watching a Memorial Day weekend Arrested Development marathon (OK, I'm not working that hard), I found myself wandering over to Justine Bateman's...

Grades In
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Grades In

The grades are in for CS 124.  Hooray!Interesting trend : freshmen, who make up a small fraction of the class, are highly over-represented in the A and A- grades...

Congratulations to Justin and Jon
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Congratulations to Justin and Jon

Justin Thaler and Jon Ullman had back-to-back thesis defenses today.  Both talks were excellent -- Justin's on his work on verification methods (for cloud computing)...

Calling Out Stupidity
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Calling Out Stupidity

While I greatly enjoy working at Harvard, there are many painfully stupid things said and done by people here -- as I suppose is the case anywhere -- that either...

A Boy and His Atom
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A Boy and His Atom

Some researchers at IBM are so good at playing with atoms, they decided to make a movie (called A Boy and His Atom), by moving atoms.  Cool stuff.  Computer science...
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