My Biased Coin

There are many things I'm thankful for this year.  Perhaps most notably, the new year marks the halfway point of my 3-year stint as ...

We decided to submit our paper on MIC and MINE to Science it's a venue that my co-authors were familiar with and very interested in app...

One of the things I enjoy most about working in algorithms is the breadth of work I get to do.  And while I've worked on a variety of th...

Last night I was running some code for a queuing simulation related to some research I'm doing.  This is the Nth time I've used this...

I thought I should give a brief description of MIC and MINE, the topic of our Science paper.  Although you're probably better off, if yo...

Despite our really very good track record for the last decade or so, there are some people out there who remain under the misimpression that...

This week, I am a scientist;  I know this, because I have an article in Science .  It's nice to have something to point to that my par...

As I've probably mentioned, I generally enjoy my consulting work.  Besides the obvious remunerative aspects, consulting provides challen...

Some folks at the NSDI meeting were nice enough to say that it was nice that I was blogging again.  Sadly, I've been under-the-gun busy ...

I dislike flying, but I have a few flights coming up. I find that engaging in "real thinking" about problems while on a plane is...

If you've missed it (which probably means you're not a theorist and/or a blog-reader), you should check out the (entertaining) contr...

I don't mind writing letters of recommendation for students.  It's part of the job.  It's a good thing to do.  I just mind dea...

We're in "round 2" of reviews for NSDI, and it's brought up a problem for me I've noticed before.  I worry that, subco...

Another topic that arose in conversations during my visit to Wisconsin was the issue of budgets, and in particular the large-scale cuts that...

Harvard CS will be hiring this year. One tenure-track position is geared toward systems, very broadly defined. A second tenure-track pos...

While visiting Wisconsin last week (enjoying very pleasant company and conversation), various issues came up. For one, I was reminded (or ...

Giorgos suggested I remind people about CAEC , which will be next week (November 18). Still time to sign up and register. Here's the ...

One of the exercises I assigned last week proved interesting:  Consider n points on a circle, labeled clockwise from 0 to n-1.  Initially ...

A bunch of talks today. Carla Gomes gave a talk at CRCS (Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society) to talk about her ...

I've having some issues getting straight answers over e-mail from an administrator in some Harvard office I'm dealing with.  This mo...