My Biased Coin

Background: As part of the "getting a new Dean" process, we're undergoing a "make a 5 year plan" process. The Scho...

We updated our Swoopo paper, Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank, mostly making small writing improvement...

First day of classes for me today. It's "spring", sort of, so I must be teaching Algorithms and Data Structures. Last year th...

Matt Welsh's recent amusing-but-also-sad post on having two recent conference submissions rejected for violating format requirements re...

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article up titled Time Crunch for Female Scientists : They Do More Housework Than Men. Worth read...

There's a new page http://intractibility.princeton.edu/jobs/ that was set up as a centralized location for advertising postdocs and job...

I generally assume (undergraduate) students know to waive their rights to look at a letter of recommendation when they ask me to write one, ...

Richard Lipton has an excellent blog post up right now on "What should a course on complexity theory cover?" where he describes w...

Harry Lewis has a new opinion piece up at Huffington Post. The title, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin : Will The Harvard Shadow Elite Bankrupt ...

I spent the day at Dartmouth, as I was asked to be "keynote speaker" for their Computer Science Annual Research Symposium . Essen...

I'm happy to announce a new paper that answers, among other questions, how I spent a huge chunk of my winter holiday break. The paper i...

One of the outcomes of the Harvard budget crisis is that the budget for Teaching Assistants has been brought into line. At Harvard, we'...

It's time for the annual New Year posting. Last year , I talked about the potential power of affirmations -- in the sense of thinking a...

Posting will be light over winter break, in part because so little is going on, but more because I'm busy working on papers for upcoming...

Mikkel Thorup sent in the following guest post: Text-book algorithms at SODA This is a pitch for promoting good text-book algorithms at SODA...

I'm spending the morning as part of the committee for a thesis defense over in Europe. I'm watching the talk over Skype; we're...

My post today is live-blogging the NSDI PC Meeting -- with a delay for security purposes, of course. My take on the reviews (and from past ...

Harry Lewis (and Fred Abernathy) take a stand against the Harvard Corporation . Required reading for anyone associated with Harvard, or int...

The people at Microsoft Research New England are excited to announce that Boaz Barak will be joining them. I imagine the situation is simil...

You may have heard on the news that the TSA (temporarily) put up their Screening Management Standard Operating Procedure on the web. As poi...