My Biased Coin

I often end up using the Google search bar as my navigator, so I've been surprised of late when typing things like "theory cs aggre...

Building an adder out of K'Nex . I never know what to make of these sorts of stories. While I admire the enthusiasm, is this really wha...

Although it's been well-covered in other blogs, I would be remiss not to mention the workshop for women in theory of computer science b...

I've found what to ask for my Cambridge University Press rep for my holiday present -- a new book Control Techniques for Complex Network...

The economist has a nice story about recent work on creating documents that yield MD5 collisions.

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...

In a recent "discussion" on another blog, I repeatedly heard the refrain that we ivory-tower pie-in-the-sky university computer sc...

The CRA has the slides for a presentation by Susan Graham and Jennifer Rexford at the Grace Hopper Conference: Introducing the Computing Com...

Many of us received a note from SIAM today, starting with: Dear Speaker: We are so pleased that you are going to be a part of the ACM-SIA...

For those who miss my regularly scheduled program, I'm busy inciting arguments over at the Computational Complexity blog on quiz-style ...

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...

Apropos of my last post on Digital Fountain is Scott's Aaronson's current report on D-Wave researchers giving talks about what'...

Every now and again, I get asked about Digital Fountain , the startup that initially grew out of work I was involved with on Tornado codes, ...

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...

David Parkes will be giving a talk on computational mechanism design in Maxwell-Dworkin G115 at 4pm on the 19th. This is what at Harvard ...

Since I've done some legal consulting, I've become interested in intellectual property (IP) issues, and the question of whether IP ...

(Warning: the following post is highly crass and commercial. If that offends you in any way, please don't read on.) Thanks to some fri...

Luca points to the letters to the editor (and Koblitz's response) regarding the Koblitz affair .

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

The discussion that in my mind connected breadth requirements to social networks reminded me of my time as a graduate student at Berkeley, ...