My Biased Coin

I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced res...

A reminder that the deadline for SOSA 2019 is August 16.  The submission server is live and running (and we already have some submissions!)....

Just a reminder that next week is the 50th  STOC in Los Angeles !  You can still come and register on site, so please come -- the program i...

Jeremy Fineman and I are co-chairing the 2019 Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms , the second year of this new endeavor.  It's nicely...

Just a reminder that the early registration for STOC 2018 is June 1.  Besides wanting that early registration discount price, you really wa...

Some SIGACT related-stuff of import: First, there's an election going on!!!  If you're an ACM/SIGACT member, you've probably g...

Several years ago, I worked on a project where the goal was to try to come up with an "equitable" version of a measure of dependen...

I was asked to post to announce the workshop/bootcamp on Sublinear Algorithms, June 10-13 at MIT.  I plan to be there and possibly talk abou...

The following is from Yuval Rabani, regarding a joint initiative we are moving forward with to establish policies, procedures, and institut...

I was asked to post the following notice for the upcoming Swedish Summer School for (theoretical) computer scientists.  I gave some lectures...

For the small-ish subset of people out there who care about "learned Bloom filters" (the subject of my last post ), I have a smal...

About a month ago, a draft paper was put out on arxiv called The Case for Learned Indexed Structures  by the people at Google Brain.  The pa...

I wanted to point people to a pair of blog posts ( Part 1 , Part 2 ) by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at the geomblog discussing the experience...

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 ...