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Graduate School?  How to Decide...
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Graduate School? How to Decide...

What do people think about students going to work for a year or two and then applying to graduate school? Or applying but then deferring to work for a year or...

Ranking
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Ranking

An anonymous commenter asked an insightful question, worthy of a real answer: "Hi Prof, Why are you so obsessed with ranking things?"*Honestly, I don't think I...

FOCS/STOC and Asymmetry
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FOCS/STOC and Asymmetry

I had a funny conversation with Madhu Sudan yesterday, with him relaying an idea he said he heard from Umesh Vazirani (and perhaps the trail goes on further from...

Harvard Financial Aid
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Harvard Financial Aid

This post will talk about Harvard's financial aid program, and why it's a perfectly good thing to give money to Harvard, despite what you might read in the New.I...

Conference Reviews
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Conference Reviews

I promised at some point to get back to discussing the reviewing process for two conferences I am currently on the PC for, NSDI and LATIN. Since I happily just...

ICS Papers Announced
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ICS Papers Announced

As pointed out many places, the paper for the (strangely named) new theory conference Innovations in Computer Science are out, with the list here and list withsurvey...

Ranking Networking Conferences
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Ranking Networking Conferences

I'm curious if various readers out there would be willing to offer their ranking of networking conferences. The issue has come up in some conversations recently...

Major (and Minor) Happenings : Gu-Yeon Wei
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Major (and Minor) Happenings : Gu-Yeon Wei

I'm thrilled to announce that my colleague Gu-Yeon Wei, in EE here at Harvard, received tenure. I feel this is worth a mention because:1) Strangely, people sometimes...

Old References
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Old References

One interesting aspect of our WSDM paper is that we have multiple references from the 1930's and 40's. It turns out our problem is related to some of the problems...

WSDM Paper : Acceptance Rates
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WSDM Paper : Acceptance Rates

I'm happy to announce our paper "Adaptive Weighing Designs for Keyword Value Computation" -- by me, John Byers, and Georgios Zervas -- was accepted to WSDM 2010...

Harvard Finances
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Harvard Finances

For those who are interested in such things, Harvard's latest financial report appears to be available. Rumors have it that the report was made (widely) public...

Welcoming Myself to CACM
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Welcoming Myself to CACM

I'd like to welcome myself to the Blogroll for the Communications of the ACM! My colleague Greg Morrisett suggested I get my blog into the CACM Blogroll, so asome...

New Book on Concentration Bounds
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New Book on Concentration Bounds

I spent an hour or more today perusing the book Concentration of Measure for the Analysis of Randomized Algorithms, by Devdatt Dubhashi and Alessandro Panconesi...

SOSP congratulations
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SOSP congratulations

One conference I've never had a paper in -- though I'd like to someday -- is SOSP, the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, one of the flagship conferences...

PCing
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PCing

This week I got my batches of papers to review for NSDI and LATIN. If I'm quiet for a while, I'm busy reading (and writing reviews). Needless to say, I didn't...

More Harvard Classes Available Online
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More Harvard Classes Available Online

Thanks to the Harvard Extension School, the lectures for several more Harvard courses have been put online. My understanding is that these are classes taught at...

Job Competitions
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Job Competitions

Stefan Savage made an insightful comment related to the issue of jobs: I've long felt that its a fallacy that there exists a fine-grained Platonic ideal of "goodness"...

"Core" TCS
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"Core" TCS

Enough time has perhaps passed from Mihai's controversial post to consider, constructively I hope, some of the comments that arose here on this blog from it.One...

Semantic Communication, Madhu Sudan
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Semantic Communication, Madhu Sudan

Madhu Sudan gave a colloquium at Harvard yesterday on his work on Universal Semantic Communication and Goal-Oriented Communication (both with Brendan Juba, thehere...

GPU News
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GPU News

Since I've now co-authored a paper on GPUs, I'm now "in-the-loop" (thanks to my co-author John Owens) on the news of NVIDIA's announcement of its "next generation"...
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