My Biased Coin

If you've been reading the other computer science blogs, you know that there are some new books out. First is the The Golden Ticket: P...

I'm off to a meeting next week, so today was my last day of class for Computer Science 124 (Algorithms and Data Structures) for the seme...

Michael asked me and Mark to write a post on our paper "Dual Lower Bounds for Approximate Degree and Markov Bernstein Inequali...

Luca Aceto reported the paper awards for ICALP 2013 .  But I find it necessary to give a special shout-out to Harvard Ph.D. students Mark Bu...

[Mikkel Thorup graciously has offered a guest blog post, discussing what he looks for in conference papers, and possible implications for re...

I've been asked to post for some upcoming events. The Simons Institute will have a multi-day symposium on Visions of the Theory of Com...

Yesterday was the long-awaited faculty meeting after the news that Harvard had examined the e-mail (metadata) of the Resident Deans looking ...

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 "...