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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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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