My Biased Coin

Andreessen Horowitz had another Academic Roundtable , which I've written about in previous years ( here , here ).  For me, the most ex...

CS125 , the "new", "honors-ish" Algorithms and Complexity course, got off to a good start today.  The room was full with...

There's a fun pair of viewpoints in the September CACM by Jeffrey Ullman and myself on experiments in computer science research, with hi...

As some of you know, I was recently elected to the position of SIGACT (ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory) Cha...

At some point, I'm convinced the "conference structure" is going to fall apart. Case in point -- I haven't bought my tic...

The 31st International Symposium on Computational Geometry has its proceedings available online here . I point this out because the SoCG p...

About six months ago, I was able to point to a nice gift from Steve Ballmer for Computer Science at Harvard.  Today, more good news, this t...

I've always been impressed how the SIGCOMM conference accepts a very small number of papers, but many hundreds of people attend the conf...

A few years ago, working with a diverse group of scientists, I was looking at a problem related to big data analysis.  The setting was data ...

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...