My Biased Coin

Harvard is putting the lectures (and other materials) online for a fantastic course, Justice , taught by Michael Sandel. It's a class ...

A blog post worth reading is Mihai Patrascu's post on, essentially, coming in second, if only for the chance to play armchair psycholog...

Luca Trevisan points to this NY Times Magazine interview with UC president Mark Yudof. Is it just me, or is this guy just completely tone ...

I'm putting online a paper with Zhenming Liu and Kai-Min Chung (both graduate students at Harvard) that extends one of the results from...

Last semester, for various reasons, I ended up "double-teaching", offering both my undergraduate algorithms class and my graduate ...

I was asked by the powers that be to remind everyone of the early registration deadline for FOCS 2009, which is October 1. Registration and...

I like Daniel Lemire's post on "the truth" about research grants so much, I'm linking to it. Richard Lipton is taking bets...

The "final version" of our SIGGRAPH Asia paper, Real-Time Parallel Hashing on the GPU, is available here . I was primarily involve...

A colleague sent me this link to a Washington Post article, on how colleges are going to be "torn apart" like newspapers have bee...

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Muthu points to a blog entry (by Danah Boyd of Microsoft Research) on research labs vs. academia. It's a good read -- especially for g...

ESA is being held at the IT University of Copenhagen. It's a wonderful, fairly new university building, with one strange problem -- a se...

As you might imagine, there's actually little controversy at ESA. But as I mentioned to some colleagues during the breaks, the only (co...

Some people have asked me to post my survey/talk at ESA on Open Problems in Cuckoo Hashing. Now that the talk is over, here they are! Here...

As announced everywhere, the list of SODA papers is up.

I'll be headed to ESA this weekend. My talk is first thing Monday morning, so I'll be there sometime Sunday. If anyone wants to ge...

At some point, I spent some time at ITA Software , a company I like for many reasons. (First, I like their flight fare-finding and selectio...

I got 3 requests for serving on PCs last week. I might say yes to 1 (if the load seems light enough), but I'm already on 3 for 2010, an...

A long time ago I had visions of helping construct a book about theoretical CS for high school students, as I wrote about on the blog multip...

Since I recently got "official word" that one grant is "in", I feel I can finally talk about my grant proposals from las...