My Biased Coin

The call for nomination for the 2017 Godel Prize is up.  The call is available at  http://madhu.seas.harvard.edu/Announce/Goedel2017CFN.html...

The call is going out for the 2017 Knuth Prize.  The call will be up on the SIGACT Web page shortly, but until it shows up there here's ...

The Theory Group at Harvard has put out its ad for postdocs again this year.  It will be our second year for the Rabin Postdoc in theoretic...

I'm told that there's a call for proposals up for workshops/tutorials for FOCS 16. Here's a link to the call for those who are...

As SIGACT chair I announced at the STOC’16 business meeting that starting in 2017, STOC will turn into a 5-day event, a Theory Fest. This i...

I'm starting to get asked about STOC 2017 dates -- we recently executed the hotel contract, and STOC will be June 18-23 in Montreal.  (I...

I've not been blogging much, but I have an excuse now that class evaluations have arrived.    By posting about the evaluations, the st...

Phil Klein passed on that there's a delay at SIAM in getting the SODA 2017 CFP up, and of course we want to get out the relevant informa...

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...