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An Apple a Day
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An Apple a Day

Reviewing papers for a conference is a slow, time-consuming process.  Suppose you had 20 reviews due and about 4 weeks to do them.  What's your approach?I take...

John Byers on WBUR
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John Byers on WBUR

Listening to my co-author, John Byers, streamed live on WBUR, discussing our work on Groupon.  Ben Edelman is another participant in the show.Here's the link.   ...

Listen
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Listen

A colleague outside theory (but inside computer science) recently brought up an interesting question with me that seemed like a possible research-level issue. LogP...

Reading Confidence Men
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Reading Confidence Men

My current spare time reading* is Confidence Men, Ron Suskind's book on Wall Street and the Presidency.  Without "taking sides" with regard to Larry Summers, IMockingjay...

Submissions, A Comparison
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Submissions, A Comparison

I just got my set of NSDI papers to review, and have been looking them over.One thing that immediately strikes me as I give them a first quick pass is how nice...

Goodbye to Steve Jobs
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Goodbye to Steve Jobs

My Mac laptop froze today.  It was an unusual occurrence;  I turned the machine off, and for a minute it wouldn't turn back on again.  I was in a panic. Then it...

New York Times
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New York Times

Our work on daily deals is mentioned and linked to in Sunday's New York Times business section.  (John Byers even got a quote in!)  It was also mentioned in this...

Allerton Part 2 : Venue Change?
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Allerton Part 2 : Venue Change?

Yesterday, I thought the best talks I saw were by Devavrat Shah and Dina Katabi.Dev was talking about how to track where rumors start.  The model is you have aproject...

Allerton 2011
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Allerton 2011

I woke up at an absurdly early hour this morning to get on a plane and go to the Allerton conference.  I'm giving a talk this afternoon on Invertible Bloom Lookup...

Set Competition
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Set Competition

As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set.  (See my previous...

Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop
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Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop

I'm just off a plane coming home from the Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop at Stanford.  It went really well, and I really enjoyed it.I think a variety of things...

Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)
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Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)

GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth...

Travels and Teaching
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Travels and Teaching

I'll be at the Beyond Worst Case Analysis workshop next week, and Allerton the week after.  For each, I'll have to miss a class.  I also have some other travels...

This Week, I Am Part of an Internet Meme
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This Week, I Am Part of an Internet Meme

My frequent co-authors John Byers, Giorgos Zervas, and I posted an extended version of a current submission to the arxiv (as people do), which showed up last Friday...

SODA Accepts -- The Count
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SODA Accepts -- The Count

People in various have been noting the SODA accepts, but nobody has been talking about the numbers.  I count 138 papers accepted.  I can't find now how many submissions...

Rabin's Birthday Celebration
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Rabin's Birthday Celebration

While I was not blogging, we spent the few days before the semester started with an 80th birthday workshop for Michael Rabin.  Impressively, we were able to pull...

Blogging Again?
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Blogging Again?

My thoughts that I would blog more over the summer, during academic "down time", turned out more of a fiction than I would have thought.  The summer proved remarkably...

SIGCOMM Webcast
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SIGCOMM Webcast

Got a note from the ACM that SIGCOMM is being live Webcast the next few days.  (I'm not in Toronto for it -- hello to everyone who is!) A simple click and I'm listening...

Fun Links, via Google+
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Fun Links, via Google+

One fun aspect of being on Google+ is occasionally a link comes along worth further notice.The first, from David Karger, is a link to a report (by Democrats, says...

Tact
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Tact

Early in the week, I was excited to find out that, apparently, it was perfectly appropriate for us professors to call (at least, already graduated) students assholes...
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