My Biased Coin

Giorgos Zervas discusses our recent paper (just accepted to EC). A few months ago, in a paper that eventually appeared at WSDM 2012 , Jo...

Paul Krugman says : "OK, I wasn’t going to post anything else, but as   Robert Farley   says, this   WaPo piece   on underworked coll...

Daniel Lemire pointed to an article on bad writing in science ( here if you care to see, not CS-specific), which got me to thinking:  do we...

I'm currently juggling serving on two PCs.  One uses HotCRP.  One uses EDAS.  In my humble opinion, HotCRP hugely dominates EDAS.   Pe...

As a sign I just must be getting old, I don't get an issue some students have with me. Since I've been professing, I hold the midt...

Having just crammed everything we could of a 10 page paper into 5 pages for a workshop paper, I admit that besides (once again) being annoye...

I think one of most challenging parts of teaching a course is setting up exams.  There are a lot of constraints: You want to cover, as r...

The major reason for my lack of blog posts recently is that I was cut off from the Internet for a week.*  Surprisingly, the experience was n...

My student, Zhenming Liu, writes about some of his recent work: Sharon Goldberg and I recently submitted a paper about technology diffu...

I'm several weeks into the super-sized class this semester.  Mostly, I find it's going fine -- indeed, there are some advantages, I...

My TAs forced me to "get with the program" and use Piazza as our mechanism for student questions.  In the past I've simply us...

I think of myself as a person who works both in systems and theory.  And I've found that's often a challenging position.  I've b...

There's an interesting story in today's Crimson about a possible rise in "limited enrollment" classes at Harvard.  (See t...

Sorry I haven't blogged much.  Life's been busy.  But here's an interesting post by FemaleScienceProfessor discussing the app...

Last year's enrollment for CS 124 was 53.  So far, current enrollment for this year:  119.  I imagine a few are still just taking a lo...

An anonymous commenter asked how we evaluate faculty applications.  While it's a little late, it's a valid question, so here are so...

Around this time of year, I get a number of messages from students:  I want to take your class, but there's a conflict with this other c...

I'm enjoying a relatively snow-free January, but despite the extra time I've had on my hands from not having to shovel, I've had...

I stopped a while by ITCS, before having to deal with other meetings. I saw fellow blogger Claire Mathieu , who told me my post on day 1 w...

I spent much of today at ITCS (Innovations in Computer Science) 2012 , over at MIT.  Justin gave an excellent talk on our work (with Graham...