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RATS roundup
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RATS roundup

I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS.  There was a brief introduction by Chris...

MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution
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MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution

Wow.  After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made an announcement...

Various Quick Pointers
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Various Quick Pointers

While it may not be news elsewhere, I'm certainly interested in the "local" case of Marc Hauser, the evolutionary psychologist at Harvard whose work has been "under...

In Need of a Few Bad Papers
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In Need of a Few Bad Papers

For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...

STOC tutorial online
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STOC tutorial online

Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online.  You can find them here.

Monkey Business
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Monkey Business

I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...

Other UK Adventures
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Other UK Adventures

While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge.At both places I gave my talk on our analysis of the auction site Swoopo...

Papers to Teach This Year
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Papers to Teach This Year

This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/networks, Algorithms at the End of the...

Back from Travels
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Back from Travels

The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel.  For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily at the Computer Science. ...

The 2050 Calculator
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The 2050 Calculator

As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay, who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian inference (author of Information...

Teaching Time Conflicts
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Teaching Time Conflicts

As the semester ominously approaches, we've noticed that we're facing a number of class time-slot collisions in computer science.This is unsurprising.  Until recently...

"I Understood Your Talk"
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"I Understood Your Talk"

Often, after I give a talk, the feedback I hear back is "I understood your whole talk," or something near that.  I take it as a compliment (although I don't think...

New Paper:  Popularity is Everything
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New Paper: Popularity is Everything

Another new paper announcement:  Popularity is Everything: A New Approach to Protecting Passwords from Statistical-Guessing Attacks, which will appear next month...

Facebook Movie Preview
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Facebook Movie Preview

It's nice to see Harvard finally getting some recognition in the mainstream media, with the upcoming Facebook/Zuckerburg movie the Social Network (based on BenThe...

Arxiv Paper:  Heapable Sequences and Subsequences
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Arxiv Paper: Heapable Sequences and Subsequences

I haven't been blogging much;  consider me on extended vacation.  It's helping me prepare for giving up the blog soonish. But I thought I'd mention our newly posted...

(n)On Vacation
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(n)On Vacation

Despite appearance, the blog hasn't yet disappeared.  I was on family vacation somewhere tropical.  Even though I was on vacation, it didn't always feel like vacation...

Colocating Conferences -- What Will It Take?
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Colocating Conferences -- What Will It Take?

In the ongoing future of STOC debate, one possibility that seems to have significant support is that we should do more colocation of conferences.  (See Suresh's...

ISIT Day 2 (2010)
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ISIT Day 2 (2010)

First, finishing up day 1, the banquet was, as expected, a fairly nondescript affair involving chicken of some sort, which I happily got to spend with a group of...

Fly-By Conferences (ISIT edition)
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Fly-By Conferences (ISIT edition)

I'm writing this from ISIT (Int'l Symposium on Inf. Theory) in Austin.  In fact, I'm sitting in on the session on for "Coding for Memories", a topic I did someweb...

"Area Dean" : What's That Mean
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"Area Dean" : What's That Mean

In a few weeks, I "officially" take on my new job as "Area Dean" (read, "Chair") of CS.  What will in entail?Formally, there appear to be a number of responsibilities...
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