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Arvind Narayanan
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When I was a student I thought professors are people who know lots of stuff. Then they went and made me a professor. After getting over my terror of not
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It's the time of year when people are deciding to apply to PhD programs. I made that decision 17 years ago. Here are some things I think you should know.
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My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear
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This is a thread about the most interesting subject I learned recently. It started when I I read the paper “How Complex Systems Fail”. Like many others encountering it, I
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This is like the unrealistic movie trope we all chuckle at in which a few badasses in their 70s have to come out of retirement to save the world because
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Every day there's a fresh Zoom privacy/security horror story. Why now, all at once? It's simple: the problems aren't new but suddenly everyone is forced to use Zoom. That means
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Let's make this simple: Zoom is malware.https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193 Using malware techniques seems part of Zoom's DNA. Recently Zoom was caught secretly installing web servers on users' machines that allowed any
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Much of what’s being sold as "AI" today is snake oil. It does not and cannot work. In a talk at MIT yesterday, I described why this happening, how we
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