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Posts from FOCS (Part 4)
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Posts from FOCS (Part 4)

[Editor: In Part 4 of what now looks to be a 5- or 6-part series of reports from FOCS, second-year graduate student Ludwig Schmidt of MIT contributes a summaryhttp...

More from Simons Institute
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More from Simons Institute

Alistair Sinclair asked me to post the following. For #2; note that those with existing postdoc positions are eligible (the Simons people hope they'll be able to...

Posts from FOCS (Part 3)
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Posts from FOCS (Part 3)

Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: This is Part 3 in our series of posts covering FOCS 2012. Part 4,...

NYCE (New York Computer Science and Economics Day) Announcement
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NYCE (New York Computer Science and Economics Day) Announcement

I was asked to post the following:We are pleased to announce that NYCE 2012, the fifth annual New YorkComputer Science and Economics Day, will be held in New York...

Posts from FOCS (Part 2)
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Posts from FOCS (Part 2)

Continuing posts from FOCS, with several guest-writers and guest-editor Justin Thaler.[Editor: First-year grad student Mark Bun of Harvard contributes a summary...

Posts from FOCS (Part 1)
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Posts from FOCS (Part 1)

Justin Thaler went to FOCS, and managed to arrange for various people to write up their thoughts on various parts of the conference.  So Justin is the famed Editor...

STOC deadline extended
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STOC deadline extended

Due to inclement weather, the deadline for STOC submissions has been extended to Monday, November 5, at 5:00 pm EST.   Check the STOC web page for more details

WSDM 2013 Accepted Papers
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WSDM 2013 Accepted Papers

The list of papers accepted to WSDM 2013 is now up.  Looks like the usual fun mix of papers.

Crimson Series on the Ad Board
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Crimson Series on the Ad Board

The Harvard Crimson just finished a four-part series looking at the Harvard Ad Board since the reforms a couple of years ago.  I must admit I didn't find the articles...

STOC 2013 Submissions
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STOC 2013 Submissions

I was asked to post the following regarding STOC 2013 submissions:1) Please read the Call for Papers carefully and pay special attentionto length and formatting...

Giving a Teleseminar
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Giving a Teleseminar

The nice folks at Texas A&M asked me to give a teleseminar as part of their series.  So instead of flying all the way to Texas to give a talk, I did so from the...

Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call
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Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Postoc / Visiting Scholar Call

Harvard's CRCS is looking for postdocs!  Please apply....We're very interested in theorists (and, of course, non-theorists as well!) in all of the areas listedhttp...

Allerton Panel
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Allerton Panel

This year was the 50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing (website).  Hard to believe it's been around that long.  I think my first...

Harvard CS Is Hiring
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Harvard CS Is Hiring

Tenure Track Position Open.  Here's the official blurb:Tenure-track Position in Computer ScienceThe Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) seeks...

Student Bragging....
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Student Bragging....

Always worth bragging about my students...Justin Thaler's paper "Cache-Oblivious Dictionaries and Multimaps with Negligible Failure Probability" (with me, Michael...

By the Numbers
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By the Numbers

Pretty much matching my predictions....My graduate course has 50 enrolled right now, fairly close to 50-50 between undergrads and grads.Salil's introductory complexity...

Happiness Is...
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Happiness Is...

NSF saying yes to your grant... (Isn't that one of the lyrics?)Once again, thanks to the NSF, I get to remain in business* for the next 3-4 years or so.  (Arguably...

But I had to grow bigger.  So bigger I got.
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But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.

First day of lecture for CS 222, Algorithms at the End of the Wire.  They stuck me in a classroom that holds 20 comfortably, and 25 or so can be done.  I'm pretty...

Uncertainty
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Uncertainty

There's an interesting new article on the Gov 1310 case* on the Crimson yesterday, titled Students Accused  in Cheating Scandal Frustrated by Uncertain Process....

Honor Codes?
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Honor Codes?

A further interesting question that has come out of the as-of-yet alleged cheating scandal at Harvard is whether Harvard should have an honor code.  The question...
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