My Biased Coin

I'm here at Bertinoro (a beautiful, out-of-the-way, small town in Italy) for the 2010 version of Random GRAALS (= graphs and algorithms...

At the start of semester, at one point I had 48 people signed up for my extension Algorithms and Data Structures course, which I said from d...

I received my student reviews today, and while I could easily post days' worth of discussions on them, suffice to say there's a non-...

Matt Welsh has what he tells me is his most-read post ever about The Secret Lives of Professors .  I'll help promote it here, but save m...

I know Harvard is supposed to be famous for its grade inflation, but that's not generally the case in my class (and, I think, for our CS...

I was asked to remind everyone that if they want to vote on the ACM elections, the deadline is May 24th.  Here is the official ACM election ...

Some highlights: 1) From the Crimson:   "An undergraduate has been dismissed from Harvard College after allegedly hacking into online...

While I intentionally try to avoid the political on this blog, I did make an exception previously when I heard that the Harvard Robobees pro...

Several days ago Lance wrote about "Is Complexity Math or Science?", and in that context wrote "We don't do experiments....

Another book on networks, namely Networks: An Introduction , by Mark Newman , will be available in about a week or so.  Mark is known to man...

Apparently, the stock market crash of 5/6/10 was not, as originally thought, due to a "standard" human/computer error where someon...

For some research I'm currently doing, I ran across a truly wonderful "old" paper, Longest increasing subsequences: from pati...

Consider your favorite conference(s).  Do you think they're accepting too many papers, too few, or just right?  (With SIGCOMM decisions ...

I am absolutely, positively, not liveblogging from the SIGCOMM PC, as that is, I am rightly told, a bad idea.  But these are my impressions ...

Inspired a bit by some inspirational, high-level talks I've seen the last few days (see Matt's take on Ed Lazowska's talk at Har...

Most every computer science conference has (at least) two rates for registration:  students and other.  Ostensibly, this is because we want ...

I'm spending the morning registering for conferences.  STOC early deadline is April 30 , ISIT is May 1 , and EC is May 6 .  I'm sure...

Sometimes, I think the students are so excited about the end of classes, they don't realize that it's almost equally exciting for th...

FemaleScienceProfessor tells an Evil Reviewer story . The CRA blog tells us that DARPA is back , in terms of funding university research. ...

There have been several interesting comments regarding the student/advisor relationship on my previous posts ( here , here , and here ) on c...