My Biased Coin

It would, of course, be completely inappropriate for me to write that if you're interested in illegal prescription drugs, you should go ...

Auernheimer -- who as I've discussed on this blog was convicted of a felony by accessing AT&T servers -- put out a statement yesterd...

And yet another security story -- this one titled find a bug, get expelled or something close to that in various places. I'm going to h...

If you haven't done so already, today is a good day to reflect upon the life of Aaron Swartz.  If you haven't heard of him or need...

So, as many of you may remember, Harvard had a rather embarrassing cheating scandal flare up at the start of the academic year, involving ov...

Help! I've got a wacky idea I'd like to explore (pseudo-preliminary-pre-research stage) which will require some code, namely for V...

I guess I'm late to this news, but I stumbled across the case of Andrew Auernheimer, who was convicted of one count of identity fraud an...

Greg Morrisett points me to this bit of silliness to start my morning: University professors have a lot less stress than most of us. Unle...

One of the smarter students I've known at Harvard, who has been a Teaching Assistant for me the last two years (and who I'm hoping ...

Put this on my list of papers I wish I had written: Manipulating Google Scholar Citations and Google Scholar Metrics: simple, easy and temp...

Joan has permitted/encouraged me to post on the STOC PC process this year.  So far, all seems to be running smoothly. Despite pre-conferen...

My colleague and frequent co-author John Byers knows that I can spend up to several hours a day actively worrying about my ranking as a comp...

[Again, edited by Justin Thaler, who organized all this.  The following was written by Michael Forbes of MIT.] Title: Higher Cell Probe L...

A question we tend to get at Harvard is why students should come here to study computer science.  There are lots of reasons, of course, but ...

Harry Lewis has had several interesting posts this month over at his blog .  In particular, he discusses Harvard Magazine's recent analy...

[Editor: In Part 4 of what now looks to be a 5- or 6-part series of reports from FOCS, second-year graduate student Ludwig Schmidt of MIT c...

Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the following. For #2; note that those with existing postdoc positions are eligible (the Simons people ...

Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler. [Editor: This is Part 3 in our series of posts cov...

I was asked to post the following: We are pleased to announce that NYCE 2012, the fifth annual New York Computer Science and Economics Day...

Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler. [Editor: First-year grad student Mark Bun of Harva...