My Biased Coin

Like many (theoretical) computer scientists, I spent far, far too much time this weekend thinking about rankings.  Well, really, it was more...

You might wonder why I am welcoming attorneys to the blog.  Well, I happen to know that some attorneys read my blog.  I know this because re...

Harvard Computer Science is doing a junior faculty search this year.  We pretty much have been doing one every year, but it's nice to be...

An upcoming paper appearing at CoNext will be of interest to any Bloom Filter user or aficionado: Cuckoo Filter:  Practically Better than ...

Andreessen Horowitz had a second Academic Roundtable , gathering together academics, VCs, and people in startups to talk for a few days abou...

I'm one of those professor types that ends up defending the joys of life as an academic versus a career in industry -- some of you who r...

The Crimson has an op-ed on simultaneous enrollment , that I agree with. Harvard does not like simultaneous enrollment, which means a stu...

Preliminary course enrollment numbers are in.  Our new theory course, CS 125 (rapid introduction to theory), has 32 undergrads and 5 others,...

An interesting article in today's Crimson about the background to the announcement that Harvard's School of Public Health will be r...

For many years now, while teaching the introductory Algorithms and Data Structures, I have told students that we won't be starting with ...

A shout-out today to my friend and colleague Pardis Sabeti (and her lab) for their Science article on the Ebola virus that appeared earlier...

I am happy to have an update on the SOCG/STOC colocation issue that arose last week.  Or, better said, Jeff Erickson has an update , the sho...

We recently put on arxiv a new draft on "Theoretical Foundations of Equitability and the Maximal Information Coefficient" .  This ...

Friday afternoon Jeff Erickson posted at Making SOCG blog some "bad news" .  Some background:  very recently, the Symposium on Com...

Back in July I took part in the Hashing Summer School in Copenhagen.  This was nominally set up by me, Rasmus Pagh, and Mikkel Thorup, thoug...

I'm just about finished reviewing for CoNEXT (Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies), and am starting reviewing...

Harvard classes start up in a few weeks, and officially, my sabbatical is over.  I'm back in my office, trying to get back into a Harvar...

For those of you going to SPAA this coming week, I'll see you there.  I'll be giving the last two talks at the conference, to what I...

It's that time of year where, as a background process, I have to do my annual reviews for the NSF.  It's generally not a very exciti...

I have just seen the news that Berthold Vöcking passed away.  For those who didn't know him, Berthold was an oustanding researcher in al...