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NSF Reviewing Trial Run
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NSF Reviewing Trial Run

Noam Nisan points to the NSF trying out some new rules for reviewing in its upcoming SSS program.  There's a lot here to discuss.  First, I'm glad to see the NSF...

Review are In, 2013
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Review are In, 2013

Teaching reviews are in!  I'm happy to say students were more forgiving than last year.  But also, I notice in the reviews the effects of 4 significant changes...

An Unusual CS Student Blog
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An Unusual CS Student Blog

As I'm up working/watching a Memorial Day weekend Arrested Development marathon (OK, I'm not working that hard), I found myself wandering over to Justine Bateman's...

Grades In
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Grades In

The grades are in for CS 124.  Hooray!Interesting trend : freshmen, who make up a small fraction of the class, are highly over-represented in the A and A- grades...

Congratulations to Justin and Jon
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Congratulations to Justin and Jon

Justin Thaler and Jon Ullman had back-to-back thesis defenses today.  Both talks were excellent -- Justin's on his work on verification methods (for cloud computing)...

Calling Out Stupidity
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Calling Out Stupidity

While I greatly enjoy working at Harvard, there are many painfully stupid things said and done by people here -- as I suppose is the case anywhere -- that either...

A Boy and His Atom
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A Boy and His Atom

Some researchers at IBM are so good at playing with atoms, they decided to make a movie (called A Boy and His Atom), by moving atoms.  Cool stuff.  Computer science...

Some Recent Books
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Some Recent Books

If you've been reading the other computer science blogs, you know that there are some new books out. First is the Golden Ticket, by Lance Fortnow, about the P vs...

Thanks for the Memories....
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Thanks for the Memories....

I'm off to a meeting next week, so today was my last day of class for Computer Science 124 (Algorithms and Data Structures) for the semester.  For two reasons,...

Guest Post by Mark Bun and Justin Thaler
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Guest Post by Mark Bun and Justin Thaler

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } Michael asked me and Mark to write a post on our paper "Dual...

Congratulations to Mark Bun and Justin Thaler
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Congratulations to Mark Bun and Justin Thaler

Luca Aceto reported the paper awards for ICALP 2013.  But I find it necessary to give a special shout-out to Harvard Ph.D. students Mark Bun and Justin Thaler,Dual...

Guest Post by Mikkel Thorup : Results vs. Techniques
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Guest Post by Mikkel Thorup : Results vs. Techniques

[Mikkel Thorup graciously has offered a guest blog post, discussing what he looks for in conference papers, and possible implications for refereeing.] Results versus...

Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events

I've been asked to post for some upcoming events. The Simons Institute will have a multi-day symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing May 29-31, just before...

Harvard E-Mail, Again
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Harvard E-Mail, Again

Yesterday was the long-awaited faculty meeting after the news that Harvard had examined the e-mail (metadata) of the Resident Deans looking for a leak of what was...

Harvard in the NCAA Tournament
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Harvard in the NCAA Tournament

Thank goodness it's Harvard's vacation week.Otherwise, the rioting would have been unbearable. 

Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day 2013
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Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day 2013

I was asked to advertise the upcoming Second Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day (CAEC'13);information is available at http://caec.seas.harvard.edu/It's...

Update:  Andrew Auernheimer Watch
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Update: Andrew Auernheimer Watch

Well, this is going to give me nightmares for a while. TechNewsWorld:"Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison...

But I Haven't Thought of You Lately At All....
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But I Haven't Thought of You Lately At All....

I realize the times they-are-a-changing, and so maybe I shouldn't find this unusual, but...Kristen Bell and Rob Thomas put up a Kickstarter campaign to raise 2Done...

Turing Award : Goldwasser and Micali
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Turing Award : Goldwasser and Micali

Got in the office this morning and heard about the latest Turing Award:  Congrats to Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali!  (Press release.) 

A Second Life for our Groupon Paper
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A Second Life for our Groupon Paper

Groupon has been in the news lately -- something about their CEO leaving, I hear.  And Giorgos Zervas has been out giving talks.  (He's a great speaker.  You should...
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