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Conflicts of Interest, Yet Again
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Conflicts of Interest, Yet Again

I was just asked to serve on the ACM CoNEXT 2010 PC (I'll have to think about it -- NSDI,SIGCOMM, and CoNEXT all in one year?), and the chairs (Muriel Medard and...

STOC Budget Questions
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STOC Budget Questions

I hate to follow the interesting conversations on FOCS/STOC/SODA (please keep commenting) with the mundane, but Lance forced me asked me to be General Chair for...

Guest Post from David Karger
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Guest Post from David Karger

Continuing from my last "controversial" post, David Karger offered the following long comment, turned into a guest post:------------I wanted to post a comment on...

FOCS/STOC : What's the Big Deal?
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FOCS/STOC : What's the Big Deal?

As mentioned recently, the FOCS submission site is now up, and STOC acceptances have come out. Related blog posts have arrived, including an amusing one by Dick...

News Roundup
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News Roundup

This just in -- computer science students at Stanford cheat! I love this quote: "Historically, the computer science department accounts for between 20 to 60 percent...

FOCS 2010 Call for Papers is Up
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FOCS 2010 Call for Papers is Up

Luca Trevisan sent me the link for the call for FOCS 2010. Key points: The deadline is April 7. And, in a move that I approve of, there's no page limit on submissions...

Recent Award for Network Coding
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Recent Award for Network Coding

I opened the January issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and saw (what is probably old news to everyone) that Tracey Ho, Muriel Medard, Ralf Kotter...

Guest Post:  Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 3
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 3

I am back from WSDM and I have to say all in all it was a great experience. I think my talk went fairly well although I can see some ways in which it could have...

Guest Post:  Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 2
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM, Part 2

Day two of WSDM was highlighted by two great presentations which I enjoyed for different reasons. I think the strong features of both could be incorporated in almost...

Guest Post:  Giorgos Zervas from WSDM
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Guest Post: Giorgos Zervas from WSDM

Since I couldn't get myself to New York for WSDM, I asked my student Giorgos Zervas to report. This is his report from Thursday.-----------------------Greetings...

Admissions Handling
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Admissions Handling

I've been spending time on both graduate admissions and undergraduate admissions.For graduate admissions, we've moved to an all-electronic system; the applications...

Does Class Size Matter?
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Does Class Size Matter?

Preliminary stats show 55 students in my algorithms course. That's probably close to the mean and slightly above the median. It's certainly not the largest course...

Justifying Growth : We Need Better PR...
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Justifying Growth : We Need Better PR...

Background: As part of the "getting a new Dean" process, we're undergoing a "make a 5 year plan" process. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)...

Paper updates
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Paper updates

We updated our Swoopo paper, Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank, mostly making small writing improvements and typo fixes that...

Teaching, Day One
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Teaching, Day One

First day of classes for me today. It's "spring", sort of, so I must be teaching Algorithms and Data Structures.Last year there were about 80 students in the class...

On Formatting
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On Formatting

Matt Welsh's recent amusing-but-also-sad post on having two recent conference submissions rejected for violating format requirements reminded me how much I hate...

Housework
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Housework

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article up titled Time Crunch for Female Scientists : They Do More Housework Than Men. Worth reading, understanding, and...

New TCS postdocs/jobs website at CCI
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New TCS postdocs/jobs website at CCI

There's a new page http://intractibility.princeton.edu/jobs/ that was set up as a centralized location for advertising postdocs and jobs for theoretical computer...

Letters and Rights
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Letters and Rights

I generally assume students know to waive their rights to look at a letter of recommendation when they ask me to write one, but I recently ran into a student that...

Algorithms and Data Structures : Course Goals
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Algorithms and Data Structures : Course Goals

Richard Lipton has an excellent blog post up right now on "What should a course on complexity theory cover?" where he describes what he is putting in his graduate...
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