My Biased Coin

Sadly, "The Professor", Russell Johnson, has passed away .  I enjoyed Gilligan's Island as a kid.  I can't help but thin...

My brother pointed me to this article on a great exchange of tweets about the origins of Netscape.  The two highlights, for me at least. ...

If you haven't seen it, there's a well-written piece on Bob Swartz , father of Aaron Swartz, in Boston Magazine, covering MITs react...

'Tis the season when graduate applications are being decided as well as the job interview process starting again, and just in time for t...

This year, (allegedly) a Harvard student performed the modern equivalent of pulling a fire alarm in order to avoid a final exam, in this cas...

Saturday I took two of my daughters to see a musical at Harvard.  Amazingly, in the small theater, we were in front of a pair of students wh...

Pre-term planning numbers are in for Harvard, and it looks like the undergrad Algorithms and Data Structures class has about 175 people plan...

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 ...