My Biased Coin

I last posted on Lance's blog about two months ago , so it seems a good time for an update. My class is (hooray!) finished.  I've...

For those still receiving this feed, I have a guest post briefly describing some aspects of life as Area Dean over at the Computational Comp...

I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment.  Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequ...

From Shots in the Dark , a pointer to a new "feature" -- apparently, there's not a tweet system recording and listing books ch...

I was recently asked to review a paper for Transactions on Networking, and noticed the following bit in the e-mail? Please note that while...

There were many interesting things at the  CRA Snowbird conference for CS chairs  (which I missed...), but I haven't heard any blog-leve...

I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended.  That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1.  Also nicely, from ...

I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS .  There was a ...

Wow.  After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences...

While it may not be news elsewhere, I'm certainly interested in the "local" case of Marc Hauser, the evolutionary psychologist...

For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read paper...

Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online.  You can find them here .

I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser , who is "taking a year-lon...

While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge. At both places I gave my talk on our analysis o...

This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/ne...

The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel.  For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily ...

As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay , who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian in...

As the semester ominously approaches, we've noticed that we're facing a number of class time-slot collisions in computer science. ...

Often, after I give a talk, the feedback I hear back is "I understood your whole talk," or something near that.  I take it as a co...

Another new paper announcement:  Popularity is Everything: A New Approach to Protecting Passwords from Statistical-Guessing Attacks , which ...