My Biased Coin

I was just asked to serve on the ACM CoNEXT 2010 PC (I'll have to think about it -- NSDI,SIGCOMM, and CoNEXT all in one year?), and the ...

I hate to follow the interesting conversations on FOCS/STOC/SODA (please keep commenting) with the mundane, but Lance forced me asked me ...

Continuing from my last "controversial" post, David Karger offered the following long comment, turned into a guest post: ---------...

As mentioned recently, the FOCS submission site is now up, and STOC acceptances have come out. Related blog posts have arrived, includi...

This just in -- computer science students at Stanford cheat ! I love this quote: "Historically, the computer science department accou...

Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010 . Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there...

I opened the January issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and saw (what is probably old news to everyone) that Tracey Ho, Muriel...

I am back from WSDM and I have to say all in all it was a great experience. I think my talk went fairly well although I can see some ways in...

Day two of WSDM was highlighted by two great presentations which I enjoyed for different reasons. I think the strong features of both could ...

Since I couldn't get myself to New York for WSDM, I asked my student Giorgos Zervas to report. This is his report from Thursday. ------...

I've been spending time on both graduate admissions and undergraduate admissions. For graduate admissions, we've moved to an all-ele...

Preliminary stats show 55 students in my algorithms course. That's probably close to the mean and slightly above the median. It's ...

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...