My Biased Coin

In a recent review of a journal paper, I got the following comment: In explaining why you are presenting simulation results, you say, "...

Sometime way back, Graham Comorde invited me to a DIMACS workshop on Algorithms for Next Generation Networks , where I talked the usual talk...

Here are a few more papers from SIGCOMM which should be of particular interest to a more theoretical audience. (Generally, SIGCOMM papers a...

I'm reminded by some current goings-on about "unusual" reviews, especially one of my worst reviewing experiences ever. I'...

The Transactions on Networking, or ToN, is changing its policy somewhat on papers. Before, it used to be the page limit was nominally 12...

The journal where I've published the most now is the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. (Probably because when I write any journa...

Next week I'll be at SWAT for an invited talk. When I gave them a choice of topics, they went with: A Survey of Results for Deletion C...

I recently had a paper with Salil Vahdan (in SODA 2008) explaining why simple hash functions "work" for so many stream-related pr...

I have a paper at ESA , with Adam Kirsch and Udi Wieder , entitled "More Robust Hashing: Cuckoo Hashing with a Stash." (Here...

Jennifer Rexford , who I've mentioned before is a networking person who appreciates theory, gave me a rumor that she'll be giving a ...

A post by Mihai Patrascu brought up the difficult issue of how to deal with papers that may or may not be correct when on a program committe...

After my first conference rant on competitive analysis (based on my current stints on the SPAA and ICALP committees), I feel it's only ...

Besides NSF proposals, another item that took up time over my winter non-break was finishing a submission to ISIT 2008 . To me, this paper ...

I know of at least two journals that I publish in that have page limits on the length of papers. I am completely puzzled by this. A journa...

The simplest binary insertion/deletion channel that I can think of is the following: with probability p, each bit independently results in t...

Continuing the " and now a word from our sponsors " riff, I'll describe a paper (to appear at SODA) that's joint with sev...

I've already talked a lot in this blog about deletion channels. Trace reconstruction involves a similar problem. We start with an orig...

SIGCOMM (the major networking conference) will be taking place shortly. Although I won't be attending, I thought I'd mention some ...

The state of journal reviewing in CS and EE journals is generally pretty dismal. It often takes an unforgivably long time to get reviews ba...