Special Interest Group on CRAP

I should first issue a disclaimer since I work for Google. This doesn’t reflect the opinion of my employer, so any inaccuracies are my fault alone. If it’s any consolation, at least Google isn’t trying to sell Mapreduce as a product. David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker recently wrote an article titled Mapreduce: a giant [...]

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I recently submitted a paper with the title “income Inequality in the Attention Economy’. This is my first paper in welfare economics, and the results in the paper came as a surprise to me. Among other things it shows that an increasing amount of attention is concentrated on a tiny number of websites. Among over [...]

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Neal Koblitz recently wrote an article in the Notices of the American Mathematical Sociey titled The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography. This article is actually the third by Koblitz, following two previous articles with Alfred Menezes: Another Look at “Provable Security” Another Look at “Provable Security”, II There’s something weird about the division in [...]

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If you’re a researcher in computer science, then how would you like to be able to watch a video of Turing or von Neumann or – for that matter – how about that lecture you really wanted to hear last week on graph algorithms at Stanford? Scientists have long been trained to record their formal [...]

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