My Biased Coin

I'm curious if various readers out there would be willing to offer their ranking of networking conferences. The issue has come up in so...

I'm thrilled to announce that my colleague Gu-Yeon Wei , in EE here at Harvard, received tenure. I feel this is worth a mention because:...

One interesting aspect of our WSDM paper is that we have multiple references from the 1930's and 40's. It turns out our problem is...

I'm happy to announce our paper "Adaptive Weighing Designs for Keyword Value Computation" -- by me, John Byers , and Georgios ...

For those who are interested in such things, Harvard's latest financial report appears to be available. Rumors have it that the report...

I'd like to welcome myself to the Blogroll for the Communications of the ACM! My colleague Greg Morrisett suggested I get my blog into...

I spent an hour or more today perusing the book Concentration of Measure for the Analysis of Randomized Algorithms , by Devdatt Dubhashi and...

One conference I've never had a paper in -- though I'd like to someday -- is SOSP, the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles , o...

This week I got my batches of papers to review for NSDI and LATIN . If I'm quiet for a while, I'm busy reading (and writing review...

Thanks to the Harvard Extension School , the lectures for several more Harvard courses have been put online. My understanding is that thes...

Stefan Savage made an insightful comment related to the issue of jobs: I've long felt that its a fallacy that there exists a fine-graine...

Enough time has perhaps passed from Mihai's controversial post to consider, constructively I hope, some of the comments that arose here...

Madhu Sudan gave a colloquium at Harvard yesterday on his work on Universal Semantic Communication and Goal-Oriented Communication (both wi...

Since I've now co-authored a paper on GPUs , I'm now "in-the-loop" (thanks to my co-author John Owens ) on the news of NVI...

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...