My Biased Coin

This was the first Crimson editorial I can recall about the upcoming move computer science will be making to Allston next year.  I'd ...

As someone who reads a significant number of court documents and decisions (I still do expert witness work), I can recommend for your readin...

An old friend from college sent me an e-mail, and it got me thinking.  When I was an undergraduate at Harvard some significant number of yea...

I'm shortly hopping on a plane to head to ALGO/ESA.  I'll be giving a survey-ish talk on Learning Augmented Algorithms, covering my ...

It seems I haven't written on this blog for a while. Today was the start of a new semester.  I'll be teaching Randomized Algorithm...

I spent the last few days at SODA-ANALCO-ALENEX-SOSA in San Diego.  (Nice location choice, I'd say!)  Here's some news. This will ...

Today was my first day at a NeurIPS conference.  Advertising note, before my thoughts on the experience: Tomorrow I'll be stationed at ...

Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science Deadline for full consideration: December 3, 2018.  Applications ...

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...