My Biased Coin

The new California budget call for $650 million in cuts to the UC systems -- I understand $500 million had already been planned, they added ...

I'm gearing up for teaching my graduate course on randomized algorithms and probabilistic analysis next semester.  It's been a while...

New books are coming out all the time, but here are two big ones that stick out in my mind (perhaps because I've seen the authors recent...

The NSF is changing its description of its merit criteria -- specifically, what the Broader Impacts criteria will be.  The details are still...

Congratulations to Georgios (alternatively, Giorgos), who defended his thesis today.*  (There's still some paperwork to get in, but we ...

A couple of days ago there was a NY Times article on computing being cool (again), including a shout-out to Harvard's own CS 50 and of ...

In an effort to return to normalcy , I find myself agreeing to serve on PCs again this year.   NSDI 2012 call for papers is up.  Dina Kat...

I was asked to post the call for papers for the (renamed) Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science conference.  (I'm glad they final...

I've been enjoying FCRC;  of course, I like large conferences where lots of people show, as long as they're run well.  Rooms have be...

At FCRC, I'm getting asked a lot about hiring.  Our hiring season still isn't quite yet finished, but I'm going to go ahead and ...

I got to FCRC a little early to attend the ACM Awards Reception and Banquet.  (Les Valiant nicely put my name on a list.)  For more on the a...

Justin Thaler , a student I'm advising (or, quite arguably, the other way around), will be at the poster session for STOC, ready to talk...

For those half a dozen of us in the world who care about the deletion channel (and perhaps I'm overcounting), I'm a bit late in poin...

See!  Who says this stuff isn't useful....

Teaching reviews for spring (Algorithms and Data Structures) came in today;  time to face the music once again. Actually, this year, my nu...

As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disal...

At the end of the year, I gave a short in-house presentation highlighting some aspects of the state of CS at Harvard.  In gathering data, on...

Getting slowly back into blogging, some happenings from the day. I've gotten a couple of nice notes from students saying they learned ...

I've given my final, and have grades ready to submit.  The semester is over!  Over the summer I may do some blogging again, as I may h...

Some good news for us.   With the growth in our introductory course, more women are declaring Computer Science as their concentration.  And ...