My Biased Coin

My friend David Miller is looking for instructors to help out with the Newton Girls who Code club.  Here's an announcement , please conn...

I switched to Apple machines several years ago, and have been very happy with them generally. One convenience is there is an Apple store i...

Wednesday afternoon I went to a panel organized by the Harvard Undergraduate Mathematics Association for a "Gender Gap on Math Discussi...

I found in my snail mail mailbox my paper copy of the IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter .  First, I was delighted by the news that ...

A latest article on bias issues for women in STEM by Harvard Business Review.  A slide presentation by AAUW related to their report: Sol...

A subject I've grown interested in, related to multiple-choice hashing schemes, is when (and why) double hashing can be used in place o...

I'm spending (part of) the week at "The Power of Randomness in Computation Workshop", an IMA (Institute for Mathematics and it...

I just typed in a nice long review on EasyChair.  Yes, I prefer doing this with the online form when I'm just sitting around and have ti...

In the "only a dozen people could care about this category"... About 4 1/2 years ago, I posted about a paper we had put up on t...

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...