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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 have had (as is pretty usual for me) some number of lunches with students this semester, and many of them asked me about the Computer Science move to Allston....Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 13, 2019 at 01:23 AM
This was the first Crimson editorial I can recall about the upcoming move computer science will be making to Allston next year. I'd encourage students (both undergraduate...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 12, 2019 at 04:53 PM
As someone who reads a significant number of court documents and decisions (I still do expert witness work), I can recommend for your reading pleasure the very....Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 3, 2019 at 01:06 AM
An old friend from college sent me an e-mail, and it got me thinking. When I was an undergraduate at Harvard some significant number of years ago, I took the graduate...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 20, 2019 at 04:25 PM
I'm shortly hopping on a plane to head to ALGO/ESA. I'll be giving a survey-ish talk on Learning Augmented Algorithms, covering my work so far in the area as well...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 7, 2019 at 03:59 PM
It seems I haven't written on this blog for a while.Today was the start of a new semester. I'll be teaching Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis, using...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 4, 2019 at 12:19 AM
I spent the last few days at SODA-ANALCO-ALENEX-SOSA in San Diego. (Nice location choice, I'd say!) Here's some news.This will be the last ANALCO (Analytic Algorithms...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 9, 2019 at 05:25 PM
Today was my first day at a NIPS conference. Advertising note, before my thoughts on the experience:Tomorrow I'll be stationed at a poster 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | December 5, 2018 at 06:35 PM
Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer ScienceDeadline for full consideration: December 3, 2018. Applications can be submitted here:https...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | October 25, 2018 at 03:43 PM
I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced resignation from CMU would be...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 10, 2018 at 02:53 PM
A reminder that the deadline for SOSA 2019 is August 16. The submission server is live and running (and we already have some submissions!). The easychair link...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 23, 2018 at 08:14 AM
Just a reminder that next week is the 50th STOC in Los Angeles! You can still come and register on site, so please come -- the program is STOC-full of good stuff...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 22, 2018 at 03:26 PM
Jeremy Fineman and I are co-chairing the 2019 Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms, the second year of this new endeavor. It's nicely co-located with SODA, and...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 29, 2018 at 08:34 AM
Just a reminder that the early registration for STOC 2018 is June 1. Besides wanting that early registration discount price, you really want to also make your...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 29, 2018 at 08:26 AM
Some SIGACT related-stuff of import:First, there's an election going on!!! If you're an ACM/SIGACT member, you've probably gotten an e-mail about this, and it's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 7, 2018 at 02:40 PM
Several years ago, I worked on a project where the goal was to try to come up with an "equitable" version of a measure of dependence; the idea was you could take...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 15, 2018 at 12:23 PM
I was asked to post to announce the workshop/bootcamp on Sublinear Algorithms, June 10-13 at MIT. I plan to be there and possibly talk about some new work. From...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 11, 2018 at 03:28 PM
The following is from Yuval Rabani, regarding a joint initiative we are moving forward with to establish policies, procedures, and institutions to deal with harassment...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 26, 2018 at 12:33 PM
I was asked to post the following notice for the upcoming Swedish Summer School for (theoretical) computer scientists. I gave some lectures for it a couple ofhttp...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 22, 2018 at 09:58 AM
For the small-ish subset of people out there who care about "learned Bloom filters" (the subject of my last post), I have a small-ish update. I guess the datafixed...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 6, 2018 at 03:21 PM