My Biased Coin

Due to inclement weather, the deadline for STOC submissions has been extended to Monday, November 5, at 5:00 pm EST.   Check the STOC web pa...

The list of papers accepted to WSDM 2013 is now up.  Looks like the usual fun mix of papers.

The Harvard Crimson just finished a four-part series looking at the Harvard Ad Board since the reforms a couple of years ago.  I must admit ...

I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions: 1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attention...

The nice folks at Texas A&M asked me to give a teleseminar as part of their series .  So instead of flying all the way to Texas to give ...

Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs!  Please apply.... We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as wel...

This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing ( website ).  Hard to believe it's been aroun...

Tenure Track Position Open.  Here's the official blurb: Tenure-track Position in Computer Science The Harvard School of Engineerin...

Always worth bragging about my students... Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Fail...

Pretty much matching my predictions.... My graduate course has 50 enrolled right now, fairly close to 50-50 between undergrads and grads. ...

NSF saying yes to your grant... ( Isn't that one of the lyrics? ) Once again, thanks to the NSF, I get to remain in business* for the ...

First day of lecture for CS 222, Algorithms at the End of the Wire.  They stuck me in a classroom that holds 20 comfortably, and 25 or so ca...

There's an interesting new article on the Gov 1310 case* on the Crimson yesterday, titled Students Accused  in Cheating Scandal Frustra...

A further interesting question that has come out of the as-of-yet alleged cheating scandal at Harvard is whether Harvard should have an hono...

Just saw Suresh point to this talk (and paper ) about a new result for max flows in O(nm) time by James Orlin.  I'm listening to the ta...

I have a bunch of half-written blog posts, none of which I have felt pressed to finish, so the blog has languished over the summer.  But the...

For those of you not following the Apple-Samsung case going on right now, it's fascinating.  Since I do expert witness work, it's in...

Last week I had an issue where I sent an e-mail to someone (non-work-related), and a while later got the response forwarded to me from my wi...

Jeff Erickson gets the blame for pointing out this amusing/disturbing video on counting .  I feel like I should make it a background video b...

Interesting Wired article talking about a bunch of people I worked with back when I was at Digital Systems Research Center, and their big e...