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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Writing together: Clarence ‘Skip’ Ellis #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
Back in 1956, Clarence Ellis started his career at the very bottom of the computer industry. He was given a job, at the age of 15, as a "computer operator"... because...
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An Inspiration: computer scientist Mark Dean #BlackHistoryMonth ^JB
In 2006 QMUL one of the winning essays in the first year essay competition was written by one of our computing students, Dean Miller. He wrote about a fellow Black...
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Freddie Figgers – the abandoned baby who became a runaway telecom tech star
Freddie Figgers' parents encouraged him to fix things - he now owns the first Black-owned telecommunications company in the US. #BlackHistoryMonth
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Gladys West: Where’s my satellite? Where’s my child? #BlackHistoryMonth
Gladys West solved the maths problems behind the positioning of satellites. She worked closely with programmers to write the code to do calculations based on her...
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Kakuro, Logic and Computer Science – problem-solving brain teasers
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
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Cold hard complexity: learning to talk in nature’s language
Think of an ecosystem like a sentence – there are thousands of words in the English language but in order to make a sentence you have to put them together in the...
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Love your data
Some councils put up 'Ignore your sat nav' signs because drivers kept relying more on the wrong information from electronic directions instead of trusting their...
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Delicious computing: gestural computing with bananas and pizzas…
Imagine being able to pick up an ordinary banana and use it as a phone. That's part of the vision of 'invoked computing', which is being developed by Japanese researchers...
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Hiding in Skype: cryptography and steganography
Computer Science isn't just about using language, sometimes it's about losing it. Sometimes people want to send messages so no one even knows they exist and a great...
From My Biased Coin
Postdoc call for FODSI
As a member of FODSI (Foundations of Data Science Institute -- an NSF funded institute with the aim of advancing theoretical foundations for data science), I'mhttps...
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HotNets Presentation : Zero-CPU Collection with Direct Telemetry Access
HotNets has asked that we let people know that the 2021 presentations are available here. I'm using that an excuse to highlight our paper on Zero-CPU Collection...
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How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)
In this post, we'll look at the natural problem of how to communicate an estimate of a real value in [0,1], using just 1 bit. The post is based on this paper (by...
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Networking+Theory Postdoc at Harvard
The last couple of years one aspect of research I've greatly enjoyed is getting back into networking, which is really due to my excellent (and patient) collaborators...
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Harvard Shopping Period, Here We Go Again
I was looking at today's Harvard Crimson, and noted that Harvard's shopping period looks ready to be vanished again. Shopping period is that wonderful Harvardsomething...
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Queues with Small Advice
I have had papers rejected, with comments of the form that the results seem too easy, and are at the level of a homework assignment. Generally, I think these reviewers...
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Machine Learning for Algorithms Workshop (July 13-14)
We're having an online workshop on "Machine Learning for Algorithms" on July 13-14, with a great group of speakers. Announcement below, link at https://fodsi.us...
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ADAPT: Designing Activity-Informed Viral Diagnostic Assays
I wanted to give a pointer to a new preprint up on bioRxiv on developing diagnostic assays for viruses, by (first author) Hayden Metsky (and others!) out of the...
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TCS Connections Questionnaire
I wanted to link to a survey that is up entitled Committee on TCS Connections Questionnaire. They are examining modifying approaches to publishing in the theoretical...
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Broad Testing Thank You
I have a loose association with the Broad Institute, an institute created so that "complementary expertise of the genomic scientists and the chemical biologists...
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