My Biased Coin

One thing I noticed talking to CS graduates from Harvard this year is -- entirely anecdotally -- more seem to be going to small start-ups.  ...

Overall, I feel I've had a very successful year, but I do have to admit:  my undergraduate class, CS 124, could have been better this sp...

For the past few years, I've been the chair for one of the international review panels for Country X's research funding bodies.  (It...

Rasmus Pagh asked me to advertise the following summer school he is organizing.  Looks like a good deal to me: SUMMER SCHOOL ON MASSIVE DA...

I received my notice a few weeks back that it's time to fill out my annual grant reports for NSF. I'd like to complain about it;  ...

So which US school was the only one in the top ten for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest this year? No, not MIT, Prince...

Final grades are finally in, thank goodnees.  With 100+ students, even entering the grades is non-trivial.  Once again, freshman in my und...

I'm told my exams are not nearly as much fun as I like to think they are.  (It's a very rare occurrence when someone turns in their ...

[Editor's comment:  Justin has been having quite a year;  after a paper in ITCS, he's recently had papers accepted to ISIT, ICALP, H...

Taking a class from Michael Sandel was one of the highlights of my college experience.  (You can sit on the lectures online, here .)  Here...

I was excited to hear that "my student"* Justin Thaler, working with Salil Vadhan and his student Jon Ullman, had a paper accepted...

Harvard's CS50 class is nicely lauded -- by a column in the Yale Daily News .  First, the Harvard-centric stuff: The good news is th...

A blog post describing the disturbing official version of the facts in the UC-Davis pepper spray incident.  This should be a link to the ac...

After weeks of asking Google mail to revert to the old look, I find I no longer have that option.  Similarly, I'm being forced to write ...

Our large data sets work on MIC is discussed in Nature Biotechnology .  (Funnily, none of the us authors of the paper knew this was coming o...

I'm very, very happy to report that Radhika Nagpal has been offered tenure at Harvard. Radhika works in several areas, including biolo...

Giorgos is on a west coast tour this week. Today he's speaking at the Berkeley EconCS seminar on our work on Groupon and Yelp.  12:30, ...

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...