My Biased Coin

I was sad to learn that David Johnson passed away.  David was a leader in the theoretical computer science community for decades, both in hi...

Nominations are open for the SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize. More information is available at the SIGACT web site .   Here'...

Boaz asked me to remind people about ITCS, and in particular the Graduating Bits Event.  Just in time for those of us reading application fo...

The Harvard Theory of Computation group has postdocs.  This year, besides our usual general call for postdocs , we are also inaugurating the...

Harvard's CS search ad is apparently up and out.  We're eagerly awaiting applications.... https://academicpositions. harvard.edu/p...

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...