My Biased Coin

Harry Lewis went to a meeting about the future of the Computer Science AP Test. He wrote a short report for our faculty, and gave permissio...

Without trying to be overtly political, I thought I'd mention some "public service" performed by Harry Lewis . Apparently, Da...

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

I'm currently going through papers for NSDI , and the PC chairs had to send out a post saying how the papers where they are co-authors w...

After a few days of trial, the two sides in the case I'm acting as an expert witness on agreed to settle, before any of the experts reac...

I'm expecting a "blog slowdown" over the next few weeks, as life is busy. I'm on the NSDI program committee , and we recen...

The STOC 2009 submission page is now up, here . [ https://secure.iacr.org/ websubrev/stoc2009/submit/ ]. While papers are due November 17, ...

Just a note that the National Academies Press has released its report (well, at 376 pages, it's really a book) Protecting Individual Pri...

I went to a talk which was about a type of industrial software. At some point the speaker puts up a list about what typical corporate-resea...

I occasionally read PhD comics. This last one explains why our enrollments will be going up again ; the one previous just made me laugh. ...

It's come out before on this blog that I have a love/hate relationship with the NSF. I love that they give out money for research -- es...

Following the trend, a reminder that the FOCS 2008 hotel/pre-registration deadline is October 3. On the STOC 2009 side, some announcements:...

The last two years, we've seen a huge increase in enrollments in our introductory computer science course. Last year it was about doubl...

To wrap up, the other paper I presented at Allerton ( pdf , talk slides ), joint with Adam Kirsch, continues our work in analyzing the power...

I like the Allerton conference. Part of it is I come most every year. So by now, I know my way around, which is a nice aspect of a conferen...

A couple of decades or so ago, Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir wrote a fun paper on write-once memory. Think of a punch card -- you can turn a 0...

I spent most of the day over at the Microsoft Research New England Opening Symposium over at MIT. It was a very nice event. Part of the f...

The 46th Annual Allerton Conference is this week. The program (not as easily accessible as it should be) is here . I'll be going, but...

Every once in a while, I see a blog entry or comment with the lament that the CS publishing model is just wrong. The common statement is t...

Anyone else noticing a pleasantly refreshing pro-theory bias at the " new " Communications of the ACM ? One news article on spect...