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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 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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 28, 2013 at 08:06 AM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | August 14, 2013 at 02:55 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 28, 2013 at 03:01 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 19, 2013 at 04:14 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 17, 2013 at 05:07 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 16, 2013 at 01:00 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 14, 2013 at 03:36 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 3, 2013 at 12:31 AM
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. ...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 29, 2013 at 11:14 AM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 28, 2013 at 05:08 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 24, 2013 at 03:35 AM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 10, 2013 at 01:02 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 30, 2013 at 05:40 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 26, 2013 at 03:37 AM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 21, 2013 at 03:33 AM
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)...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 7, 2013 at 01:51 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 4, 2013 at 07:28 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 1, 2013 at 03:31 PM