My Biased Coin

The Harvard Crimson had an editorial earlier this week on the Ad Board, the administrative board that implements the rules of the college fo...

Harvard is getting new ID cards next year , thanks to an ambitious student who apparently figured out how to forge IDs (including a duplicat...

One thing they don't warn you about in graduate school -- unless some places have changed their "teaching preparation" classes...

I've been eagerly awaiting my chance to talk about the results of this year's hiring season for Harvard Computer Science, but wanted...

At Harvard (like most US institutions), Harvard pays us a "9-month" salary; we can earn 3 additional months "summer salary...

For me, one of the hardest challenges of teaching is making up homework assignments and final exams. For homework assignments, there's ...

If you're a regular reader, you've probably noticed that I haven't been posting as much as usual lately. Unfortunately, that...

One nice thing about traveling to New Zealand was that I spent several days disconnected from e-mail. I went a whole 80+hours without check...

A few interesting pieces of news from Harvard. First, Harvard is setting up a scheme to avoid restrictive access policies of some journals. ...

Harvard's is again improving its financial aid policy, as described here and here . It's not as wacky or ludicrous an idea as not c...

I'm writing this while stuck at attending an NSF FIND (Future Internet Design) working meeting (Nov 27-28). Part of the FIND program i...

I recently returned from an NSF (National Science Foundation) review panel. (Of course, I'm not allowed to say when, or for what.) On ...

Except for the rare award (like the ACM-SIGACT Distingushed Service Award or Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award ), our academic com...

We're eagerly looking for candidates in CS in all areas at the junior level (i.e., assistant profs). (Be sure to tell your non-theory f...

Following up on my last post ... in one respect I know I'm spending more time on administrative issues recently. Last semester I starte...

A number of times I've had undergraduates ask me, essentially, "What else do you do?", which sometimes is an honest interest i...

Over at the geomblog , Suresh and Piotr have taken my initial data-gathering on citations counts for the theory conferences to the extreme. ...

The discussion on citation counts reminded me of the related question of how much of a role this sort of data should play in tenure decisio...

Continuing my last question, what other support for graduate students (on the Ph.D. track) do you have? The main two I can think of are the...

What's a graduate student cost these days? That is, as a line item on an NSF grant, for a 12-month graduate student, tuition+stipend+ov...