My Biased Coin

As the New Year beckons, I figured it was time for a post on affirmations , which I remember being interested in when reading about it one o...

A number of commenters on my last post have mentioned the INFOCOM Miniconference. I hadn't actually known about the miniconference -- a...

A paper I co-authored on network coding -- Network Coding Meets TCP (arxiv version) -- was accepted to INFOCOM. Full credit for the succes...

Apropos of application season... Graduate school is a long stretch of time -- 5 years (or more) for most people. There are few clear goals ...

Some lessons from a 1-day PC meeting (nothing really new, but I thought I'd write it down): 1) Face-to-face PC meetings involve far too...

I'm spending tomorrow at the NSDI (Networked Systems Design and Implementation) Program Committee meeting. It's been a few years s...

The bad economy already has people thinking about jobs -- it is, I am sure, going to be a challenging year (years?) for people graduating. ...

Ben Edelman (who actually does some theory when he's not doing law and business) gave a great talk today at the Harvard Center for Res...

Most of the last week was spent working on an NSF grant proposal . (By the way, does anyone know why they kept the pdf and txt format of th...

Ah, the joys of outsourcing at http://www.getacoder.com/ projects/bug_finder_92913.html . Read down to the bottom to find responses by Gode...

This popped into my mailbox, and I can't see any reason not to pass on the announcement here. Especially notice the bit at the end abou...

It looks like we ended up with about 329 submissions. (Hopefully that won't change much at this point.) That's between 40-50 paper...

Let's say you're the PC chair for a major (theory) conference, about to give instructions to the committee. The standard way to jud...

In what I'm taking as a sign of continuing Impending Doom on the economic front, I received mail from the 3 levels in the hierarchy abov...

Remind your friends (and, if you're feeling generous, your enemies) that indeed the short abstract for your future STOC submission is du...

Remember that November 10 is the deadline for the "short abstract" for STOC. More information at the web site , or head to the sub...

Day 2 of IPAM also had a bunch of interesting talks. My favorite for the day was by Ramesh Johari , who was considering the following probl...

I spent Monday at an IPAM meeting on Networks. (I'll be here today, too.) I gave a very "high-level" talk, covering my taxon...

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

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...