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That Time of Year : Annual NSF Reports
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That Time of Year : Annual NSF Reports

I received my notice a few weeks back that it's time to fill out my annual grant reports for NSF.I'd like to complain about it;  it's a pretty boring process, and...

A Little Truly Offensive Bragging (On Behalf of Harvard CS)
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A Little Truly Offensive Bragging (On Behalf of Harvard CS)

So which US school was the only one in the top ten for the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest this year?No, not MIT, Princeton, or Carnegie Mellon...

Grading, Correlation vs. Causation
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Grading, Correlation vs. Causation

Final grades are finally in, thank goodnees.  With 100+ students, even entering the grades is non-trivial.  Once again, freshman in my undergraduate Algorithms...

Grading is No Fun
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Grading is No Fun

I'm told my exams are not nearly as much fun as I like to think they are.  (It's a very rare occurrence when someone turns in their exam early at my 3-hour final...

Attribute-Efficient Learning (Guest Post by Justin Thaler)
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Attribute-Efficient Learning (Guest Post by Justin Thaler)

[Editor's comment:  Justin has been having quite a year;  after a paper in ICS, he's recently had papers accepted to ISIT, ICALP, HotCloud, and COLT.  In this guest...

Sandel on Colbert
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Sandel on Colbert

Taking a class from Michael Sandel was one of the highlights of my college experience.  (You can sit on the lectures online, here.)  Here's his latest appearance...

A Collaborative Atmosphere
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A Collaborative Atmosphere

I was excited to hear that "my student"* Justin Thaler, working with Salil Vadhan and his student Jon Ullman, had a paper accepted to ICALP (Faster Algorithms for...

Thanks, Yale Daily News!
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Thanks, Yale Daily News!

Harvard's CS50 class is nicely lauded -- by a column in the Yale Daily News.  First, the Harvard-centric stuff:The good news is that there

Things Worth Reading
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Things Worth Reading

A blog post describing the disturbing official version of the facts in the UC-Davis pepper spray incident.  This should be a link to the actual report.    A post...

Living with New Interfaces
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Living with New Interfaces

After weeks of asking Google mail to revert to the old look, I find I no longer have that option.  Similarly, I'm being forced to write this post using the new...

In the News this Week...
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In the News this Week...

Our large data sets work on MIC is discussed in Nature Biotechnology.  (Funnily, none of the us authors of the paper knew this was coming out.  One of us heardGroupon...

Congratulations to Radhika Nagpal
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Congratulations to Radhika Nagpal

I'm very, very happy to report that Radhika Nagpal has been offered tenure at Harvard.Radhika works in several areas, including biologically inspired multi-agent...

Talk at Hearst Mining....
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Talk at Hearst Mining....

Giorgos is on a west coast tour this week. Today he's speaking at the Berkeley EconCS seminar on our work on Groupon and Yelp.  12:30, 410 Hearst Mining. Info ...

The Groupon effect on Yelp ratings (Guest Post)
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The Groupon effect on Yelp ratings (Guest Post)

Giorgos Zervas discusses our recent paper (just accepted to EC).A few months ago, in a paper that eventually appeared at WSDM 2012, John, Michael and I (Giorgos)...

Aside on the Politics of Teaching
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Aside on the Politics of Teaching

Paul Krugman says:"OK, I wasn

Best Written Paper
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Best Written Paper

Daniel Lemire pointed to an article on bad writing in science (here if you care to see, not CS-specific), which got me to thinking:  do we (in whatever subcommunity...

A Brief Comment on Conference Software
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A Brief Comment on Conference Software

I'm currently juggling serving on two PCs.  One uses HotCRP.  One uses EDAS. In my humble opinion, HotCRP hugely dominates EDAS.   Perhaps EDAS isn't actually so...

Housing Day Midterm
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Housing Day Midterm

As a sign I just must be getting old, I don't get an issue some students have with me.Since I've been professing, I hold the midterm for my class the Thursday before...

Pointers, Not Papers
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Pointers, Not Papers

Having just crammed everything we could of a 10 page paper into 5 pages for a workshop paper, I admit that besides (once again) being annoyed by having to go through...

Making a Midterm is No Fun
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Making a Midterm is No Fun

I think one of most challenging parts of teaching a course is setting up exams. There are a lot of constraints:You want to cover, as reasonably as possible, all...
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