My Biased Coin

Over the next week, I'll present some thoughts related to the STOC PC meeting, which wrapped up earlier today. (Please don't send m...

We're getting to the point where we have to make our decisions on graduate student admissions. In the theory group at Harvard we got a ...

I guess there's another week until the "official deadline" for SIGCOMM, but the deadline for registration of abstracts/titles ...

In the comments on my last post on algorithms and implementation , someone asked where to publish when you sit in the middle, and how can a ...

I was leafing (again) through George Varghese's text, Network Algorithmics , and this caught my eye: In summary, the uncritical use of s...

I had the pleasure of visiting Georgia Tech Wednesday, giving a theory seminar, in this case my survey talk on Deletion Channels . A fun day...

I should have blogged about this before, but didn't notice over break that Yale had "agreed to pay7.6 million to resolve allegation...

When I'm not looking over STOC papers the next few weeks, I'll also be looking over graduate student admissions folders. (At Harvar...

There's a new paper with bounds on the capacity of the deletion channel on the arxiv by Fertonani and Duman. The main results are some...

Although it's far from over, I'm already clear that one of my recommendations for the future of FOCS/STOC conferences is to start ha...

I suggested that I'd blog about my experiences as STOC PC chair, so I thought I'd give an update. We're nearing the point where ...

It's that time of the year where it's time to get my next class ready. I could use your help. For various odd reasons, in the comin...

Having just finished serving on the NSDI PC committee, and being hard at work on the STOC committee, one issue that has been on my mind is c...

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. ...