My Biased Coin

This is as much personal recording for me (and perhaps of interest to Harvard people who read the blog).  But also putting the numbers here ...

I've spent Sunday/Monday at ITCS , or Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science, where I am giving a talk on this paper on  Scheduling...

I have had (as is pretty usual for me) some number of lunches with students this semester, and many of them asked me about the Computer Scie...

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...