My Biased Coin

During my time as Area Dean for computer science, the number of computer science majors at Harvard more than doubled.  Growth has continued,...

A few summers ago, I had an opportunity to visit Copenhagen, and work with Rasmus Pagh for a month.   I (and the family) liked it so much we...

I have a new paper on the arxiv ( web page describing results , and full version ** available) with two Harvard undergrads, Max Hopkins and...

I hadn't seen the news about Yale renaming Calhoun College to Hopper College;  it just popped into one of my newslines here in the New Y...

After the shout-out to Meena, she suggested I might have more to say on the issue of the Google memo.  I (like I imagine so many others) hav...

For some reason (Google*), I found myself thinking of former Harvard student Meena Boppana this week, and thought I'd link to some thing...

It's summer.  And I'm now on sabbatical.  So perhaps I shouldn't care about strange Harvard politics goings-on, but I can't ...

The word is that the 2nd edition of our book is now (finally) available/in stock at Amazon.  You can tell it's the 2nd edition, because...

The 2017 STOC is over, and I thought it went very well.  The new format ran with what seemed to me to be minimal to non-existent glitches, a...

A reminder that this year's STOC is supersized, with (completely in the STOC package) multiple workshops , tutorials , and special speak...

STOC 2017 is just around the corner, which means that several deadlines are just around the corner. The student travel support request dea...

There's a lot of new information up at the STOC web page  http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/  about the amazing theory fest June 19-23 in Mon...

Call for Nominations 2017 SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize The Theory community benefits in many ways from the dedicated service, above...

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...