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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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 21, 2010 at 02:46 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 19, 2010 at 05:43 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 17, 2010 at 11:03 PM
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...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 15, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Dean of Harvard's SEAS, Cherry Murray, is to be appointed to President Obama's oil spill panel.Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM
This article from the Crimson on the state of Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences from a couple of weeks ago serves as a good primer for me on...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 14, 2010 at 07:57 PM
Co-located conferences make for a hectic week! Again, my thanks to the Microsoft local arrangement team (especially Paul Oka) for setting up STOC, which I thought...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 12, 2010 at 02:24 PM
Boaz Barak asked to give a guest post on the recent STOC/FOCS issue and the question of accepting more papers. So I hand the floor over to Boaz:Do we really need...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 11, 2010 at 06:56 PM
In honor of being at EC, a post on branding. In theory, your research will be judged and appreciated based on its intrinsic quality, and your scientific reputation...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 10, 2010 at 10:05 AM
EC is an interesting mix of theory/AI/economics and many other things as well (data mining, social computing, user interfaces....) Definitely a bit of a hodgepodge...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 10, 2010 at 02:03 AM
STOC 2010 appears to be running quite smoothly. I've been popping in and out -- the problem with being a local is that I actually have to go home at reasonable...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 7, 2010 at 07:07 PM
In honor of the STOC business meeting coming up shortly: STOC, CCC, and EC are all apparently poised to have very strong attendance this year -- from what I understand...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 6, 2010 at 09:36 PM
I'm very, very pleased to announce that Matt Welsh's Harvard tenure case has been successful. There's a number of wonderful things I could say about Matt andthe...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 6, 2010 at 02:34 PM
I was asked by the SIGCOMM program chairs to remind everyone that there are travel grants available, especially for students, postdocs, and junior faculty. Since...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 5, 2010 at 07:39 PM
As long-time readers of the blog know, I am a fan of ITA software, the company with the fare-finding technology and search engine that powers Orbitz and several...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM
I'm not yet sure how many hours a week being a Chair (oops, "Area Dean") will chew up, but I think it's safe to say it will be a non-trivial number. I'm generally...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 3, 2010 at 05:30 PM
Since I left, Andrew McGregor tool over and has posted a summary of day 3 on his polylogblog, which is also now added (at the top!) on the bloglist at the right...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 3, 2010 at 04:56 PM
Bertinoro is a really beautiful city. I just felt like saying that.Today's talks: Geppino Pucci talked about Bluetooth networks, modeled as a variation of random...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 2, 2010 at 04:34 AM
Since it's more or less been publicly announced at this point, I may as well announce it here: starting July 1, I'll be the new Area Dean for Computer Scienceunlike...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 1, 2010 at 07:46 AM
I'm here at Bertinoro (a beautiful, out-of-the-way, small town in Italy) for the 2010 version of Random GRAALS (= graphs and algorithms), a workshop that we'vestandard...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 31, 2010 at 04:04 PM