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Work and the Internet 27 Jul 2010 | 01:38 am
For context about why I care, here is a slight paraphrasing from grant proposal I recently wrote: For the last eight years, I have been working to develop an area of computer science called "human co...
Research versus Teaching 20 Jun 2010 | 03:01 am
My previous post stirred some people's emotions. Reading the comments, it seems part of that came from the tension between teaching and research in modern American universities. In most countries, th...
Outsourcing My Research Group 17 Jun 2010 | 05:19 am
A PhD student at Carnegie Mellon costs approximately $80,000 per year. (Research programmers and post-docs cost about the same.) Given that PhD students have to take classes for the first couple of ye...
America's Next Top Nerd 10 Jun 2010 | 03:57 pm
I want to make a computer science reality TV show. Like in most reality shows, the participants would compete to win a prize, but since they would be CS nerds, we won't aim for something as crazy as g...
Startups and CMU 7 Jun 2010 | 04:01 pm
Is Carnegie Mellon a good university to go to if you plan on working for or building a startup? That's the question I was recently asked by somebody from the Quora team. I'm frequently asked similar q...
Give Me Back My Name 25 May 2010 | 12:47 pm
Dear Person Who Took My Name on Twitter and Linked to a Porn Site, Yes, I know, I was stupid. I should have taken @LuisvonAhn years ago when I first signed up. But you have to understand, I didn't kn...
Bored: Need Some Scandalous Gossip 26 Mar 2010 | 01:27 pm
Many people have emailed asking why I haven't posted on this blog for a while. Well, here's why: I've been busy working on a bunch of things including a super duper secret project. I have a big mouth,...
Advice On Grad School Applications 3 Dec 2009 | 03:22 pm
Research statements, recommendation letters, GREs. 'Tis the season again for grad school applications. To save all the kiddies from embarrassment and rejection (which typically implies you'll just end...
Serious Damage to Health 28 Nov 2009 | 11:35 am
So apparently this was run as an ad for Johnny Walker in Central America. I should ask them to pay me! (The other page had my name on it.) The best is what it says at the bottom: "Causes serious damag...
Choosing a New Department Head 5 Oct 2009 | 05:40 am
Our computer science department is currently in the process of choosing a new department head. Since we're academics, no decision can be simple so the faculty has come up with a complex procedure that...
