My Biased Coin

As a member of FODSI (Foundations of Data Science Institute -- an NSF funded institute with the aim of advancing theoretical foundations for...

HotNets has asked that we let people know that the 2021 presentations are available here .  I'm using that an excuse to highlight our pa...

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 ...

The last couple of years one aspect of research I've greatly enjoyed is getting back into networking, which is really due to my excellen...

I was looking at today's Harvard Crimson, and noted that Harvard's shopping period looks ready to be vanished again .  Shopping peri...

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.  Genera...

We're having an online workshop on "Machine Learning for Algorithms" on July 13-14, with a great group of speakers.  Announcem...

I wanted to give a pointer to a new preprint on bioRxiv on developing diagnostic assays for viruses, by (first author) Hayden Metsky (and ...

I wanted to link to a survey that is up entitled Committee on TCS Connections Questionnaire .  They are examining modifying approaches to pu...