My Biased Coin

Thank goodness it's Harvard's vacation week. Otherwise, the rioting would have been unbearable . 

I was asked to advertise the upcoming Second Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day (CAEC'13); information is available at http:/...

Well, this is going to give me nightmares for a while. TechNewsWorld: "Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was ...

I realize the times they-are-a-changing, and so maybe I shouldn't find this unusual, but... Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas put up a Kicks...

Got in the office this morning and heard about the latest Turing Award:  Congrats to Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali!  ( Press release. )...

Groupon has been in the news lately -- something about their CEO leaving, I hear.  And Giorgos Zervas has been out giving talks.  (He's ...

Harvard's name, obviously, still sells newspapers.  The "e-mailgate" scandal of the past few days has been appearing everywher...

Given the hubbub that arose this weekend over the issue of Harvard examining the e-mail of some of the Resident Deans, it's gratifying (...

A strange offshoot of the Harvard cheating scandal -- a report in the Boston Globe that Harvard administrators decided it was OK to search ...

Back when I started at Harvard, people would literally say things to me like, "I didn't know Harvard had computer science." ...

Joan Feigenbaum is the Program Committee Chair for STOC 2013, where papers decisions were recently announced;  I served as part of the Exe...

Given the loud outcry regarding the STOC 2013 formatting, which gave you 10 double-column pages to work with (at the cost of, you know, havi...

1)  Sharon Goldberg and Nick Feamster asked me to announce the following: In the tradition of CAEC, NYCE, and etc, we are holding a "...

Anyone else watching Jon Stewart making fun of Harvard w/regard to the "cheating scandal". [I need the exact wording for the pun...

Harvard had a special faculty meet-the-director-deal thing for a preview of The Glass Menagerie, playing the next few weeks at the American ...

We've finally got an update on the Government 1310 situation.  As reported by the Crimson , FAS Dean Mike Smith sent out an email Friday...

It's felt like a bad few weeks at Harvard. Not that anything actually BAD has happened, like an inexplicable paper rejection or some i...

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...