My Biased Coin

There's been plenty of interesting stuff popping up in the news, so it's time to collect a bit. This article describes a current ...

In the past year or so, I've gotten reviews back on multiple papers with the complaint that the result was too simple.  My interpretatio...

Before returning home last week I spent a day at UC Davis giving a talk.  I got the spend the day talking to various people I've collabo...

I've been visiting the Simons Institute for one of their workshops the last few days.  I got my advisor Alistair Sinclair to give me a t...

I was impressed how quickly the NSF got Fastlane back online.  (I think it was turned on a few hours after the shutdown was ended.)  But lik...

Alistair Sinclair asked me to post a note about the Simons Research Fellowships positions at Berkeley.  But since that's where Justin Th...

At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table ( see past pos t), there was various advice, some of it contradictory, for professor-types i...

At the Andreessen Horowitz academic round table ( see last pos t), the issue of how to promote student entrepreneurship through the curricul...

I've spent the last couple of days attending the Andreessen Horowitz Academic Round Table.   Andreessen Horowitz is a leading venture c...

Giorgos Zervas is in the news again (with Michael Luca of Harvard Business School), this time for his work on filtered/fake Yelp reviews.  ...

It's always nice to see a computer scientist be on the list for an award that spans over multiple disciplinary areas.   This year, we ge...

A pun title, relating to two quick things. First, I had the wonderful experience of getting to see (through a special deal set up by Harva...

Justin Thaler , after presenting his most recent work on verifiable computation at Crypto, decided to write up a mini-survey on recent work ...

As I go through the reviews from my latest NSF proposal, there are general high-level comments related to my past work.  This leads to an in...

I haven't posted for a while, primarily because I started by sabbatical by going to Copenhagen for most of August.  I was primarily visi...

I thought Nick Feamster's post on managing your advisor was a good read and good advice for new graduate students.  In fact, I'd re...

One of the more amusing conversations at the social part of the Microsoft faculty summit (initiated by the humorous commentary of Kevin Leyt...

1)  Last week a key came off my daughter's Apple Macbook keyboard.  One of my keys on my machine had also come loose -- the "E...

Day Two of the summit started with a keynote shared between Peter Lee and Jeannette Wing, who now seem to be sharing heading up Microsoft re...

Day one of the faculty summit was a great deal of fun.  Primarily, I found I enjoyed catching up with people -- I saw a number of past/curre...