My Biased Coin

One issue I keep seeing in comments here and elsewhere on this issue is that academia is very competitive, with everyone worried about their...

Continuing from last post, I aim to focus on some of the issues related to stress in academia.  Today's post will be related to stress a...

I've seen lots of news and posts recently on the general theme of stress in academia. Daniel Lemire blogs about Stefan Grimm , a profe...

The madness that is the CS50 Fair at Harvard is going on now.  Hundreds of students demo-ing their final projects.  If you can't be ther...

As mentioned previously, our current Dean for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cherry Murray, will be stepping down at the en...

Continuing the good news at Harvard, word has been given that Eddie Kohler has officially been offered tenure.  So we hope/expect/are excite...

Harvard Computer Science was given a sizable gift from Steve Ballmer;  we're excited at the opportunity to grow this gift will provide u...

Veterans Day is a federal holiday, but, at Harvard classes go on.  This year, the holiday is observed for staff, but we'll be teaching. ...

A variety of links on related news. Ebola #1 (local):  The HackEbola with Data website gives detail for the upcoming Harvard Hacking even...

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...