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Practical Uses of Induction
From My Biased Coin

Practical Uses of Induction

See!  Who says this stuff isn't useful....

Annual Facing the Reviews
From My Biased Coin

Annual Facing the Reviews

Teaching reviews for spring (Algorithms and Data Structures) came in today;  time to face the music once again.Actually, this year, my numbers were up substantially...

NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)
From My Biased Coin

NSF Bows to Blog Pressure (Tongue-in-Cheek)

As some of you may recall, I accused the NSF of being "misguided" in changing its graduate fellowship policy to effectively disallow teaching.   So I was please...

Serving Non-Majors in CS Classes
From My Biased Coin

Serving Non-Majors in CS Classes

At the end of the year, I gave a short in-house presentation highlighting some aspects of the state of CS at Harvard.  In gathering data, one thing that struckDavid...

Daily Updates
From My Biased Coin

Daily Updates

Getting slowly back into blogging, some happenings from the day.I've gotten a couple of nice notes from students saying they learned a lot from my class this semester...

Back to Blogging
From My Biased Coin

Back to Blogging

I've given my final, and have grades ready to submit.  The semester is over! Over the summer I may do some blogging again, as I may have time for it.  I was noticing...

Harvard CS -- Growth in Women Majors
From My Biased Coin

Harvard CS -- Growth in Women Majors

Some good news for us.   With the growth in our introductory course, more women are declaring Computer Science as their concentration.  And we seem to be growing...

Harry Lewis Asking Tough Questions (Again)
From My Biased Coin

Harry Lewis Asking Tough Questions (Again)

Harry Lewis is asking Harvard to confront the issue of some of Harvard's professors being involved in money-making opportunities, like working for Libyan dictators...

Did the NSF Just Do Something Really Stupid Misguided?
From My Biased Coin

Did the NSF Just Do Something Really Stupid Misguided?

To begin, as I always do when I write about the NSF, let me start by saying that I love the NSF, and I greatly appreciate all the research funding they give me. ...

More on Academic Communications
From My Biased Coin

More on Academic Communications

UW Madison has responded to the Open Records Request regarding Professor Cronon (which I mentioned here).  Here's a link to the Chancellor's message as well asUW...

Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts
From My Biased Coin

Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts

While I've successfully resisted urges to return to blogging, I wanted to point to something. For those who might have missed this, I encourage you to go read William...

Leslie Valiant Wins Turing Award
From My Biased Coin

Leslie Valiant Wins Turing Award

About time!

Spring Semester Update
From My Biased Coin

Spring Semester Update

I see it's been two months since my last post.  I must admit, there are times I miss blogging.  I've often felt I have something interesting to post about, butClaire...

End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)
From My Biased Coin

End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)

I last posted on Lance's blog about two months ago, so it seems a good time for an update.My class is (hooray!) finished.  I've sent out grades to the students,...

Guest Post over at Computational Complexity Blog
From My Biased Coin

Guest Post over at Computational Complexity Blog

For those still receiving this feed, I have a guest post briefly describing some aspects of life as Area Dean over at the Computational Complexity blog. 

Blog Retrospective
From My Biased Coin

Blog Retrospective

I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment.  Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequent and opinionatedKleinberg's...

Doing the Right Thing?  (Quick Links Edition)
From My Biased Coin

Doing the Right Thing? (Quick Links Edition)

From Shots in the Dark, a pointer to a new "feature" -- apparently, there's not a tweet system recording and listing books checked out from Harvard libraries. Marc...

Conference/Journal Versions -- Transactions on Networking
From My Biased Coin

Conference/Journal Versions -- Transactions on Networking

I was recently asked to review a paper for Transactions on Networking, and noticed the following bit in the e-mail?Please note that while this paper may have had...

Various Quick Pointers, Redux
From My Biased Coin

Various Quick Pointers, Redux

There were many interesting things at the CRA Snowbird conference for CS chairs (which I missed...), but I haven't heard any blog-level discussion of their call...

How's that New Job Treating You? Edition
From My Biased Coin

How's that New Job Treating You? Edition

I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended.  That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1.  Also nicely, from the count on the right, I'mreally...
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