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Allerton Part 2 : Venue Change?

Yesterday, I thought the best talks I saw were by Devavrat Shah and Dina Katabi.Dev was talking about how to track where rumors start. The model is you have aproject... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 29, 2011 at 04:37 PM

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Allerton 2011

I woke up at an absurdly early hour this morning to get on a plane and go to the Allerton conference. I'm giving a talk this afternoon on Invertible Bloom Lookup... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 28, 2011 at 07:03 PM

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Set Competition

As an applied probability exercise, I had my class compute empirically the probability of a game failing on the nth round for the game of Set. (See my previous... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 28, 2011 at 01:46 AM

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Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop

I'm just off a plane coming home from the Beyond Worst Case Analysis Workshop at Stanford. It went really well, and I really enjoyed it.I think a variety of things... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 22, 2011 at 03:53 AM

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Guest Post on NYCE (Giorgos Zervas)

GUEST POST by GIORGOS ZERVAS I was at NYCE 2011 this past Friday. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and productive experience. I feel like I got a conference's worth... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 20, 2011 at 01:25 PM

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Travels and Teaching

I'll be at the Beyond Worst Case Analysis workshop next week, and Allerton the week after. For each, I'll have to miss a class. I also have some other travels... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 16, 2011 at 01:47 PM

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This Week, I Am Part of an Internet Meme

My frequent co-authors John Byers, Giorgos Zervas, and I posted an extended version of a current submission to the arxiv (as people do), which showed up last Friday... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 15, 2011 at 12:21 PM

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SODA Accepts -- The Count

People in various have been noting the SODA accepts, but nobody has been talking about the numbers. I count 138 papers accepted. I can't find now how many submissions... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 14, 2011 at 06:38 AM

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Rabin's Birthday Celebration

While I was not blogging, we spent the few days before the semester started with an 80th birthday workshop for Michael Rabin. Impressively, we were able to pull... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 13, 2011 at 04:23 AM

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Blogging Again?

My thoughts that I would blog more over the summer, during academic "down time", turned out more of a fiction than I would have thought. The summer proved remarkably... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | September 12, 2011 at 02:15 PM

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SIGCOMM Webcast

Got a note from the ACM that SIGCOMM is being live Webcast the next few days. (I'm not in Toronto for it -- hello to everyone who is!) A simple click and I'm listening... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | August 16, 2011 at 02:20 PM

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Fun Links, via Google+

One fun aspect of being on Google+ is occasionally a link comes along worth further notice.The first, from David Karger, is a link to a report (by Democrats, says... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | August 2, 2011 at 01:03 AM

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Tact

Early in the week, I was excited to find out that, apparently, it was perfectly appropriate for us professors to call (at least, already graduated) students assholes... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 22, 2011 at 10:37 PM

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Beyond Worst Case Analysis -- Preparing a Talk

A few months ago, Tim Roughgarden mailed me to say was putting together a little workshop on the theme of Beyond Worst Case Analysis, and would I like to be one... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 22, 2011 at 02:48 PM

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Rabin's 80th Birthday Celebration

Big announcement: We'll be having an 80th birthday conference celebration for Michael Rabin at Harvard at the end of August. Lots of great talks by big-name CS... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 18, 2011 at 08:09 PM

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SODA in Japan

I hadn't even noticed SODA was in Japan before submitting. I just figured wherever it was I'd be willing to go, as January in Boston is a fine time to be elsewhere... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 12, 2011 at 07:00 PM

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Using Google Scholar for More Than Your h-Index

The comments from the last post (thanks, David Andersen) spurred me to mention the following.I do check Google Scholar for my own work fairly regularly. Not to... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 9, 2011 at 03:27 PM

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h-index != impact

Suresh and Daniel Lemire (in Google+ posts) have pointed to the following paragraph from this blog: The sad thing is that young people have now been terrified... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 8, 2011 at 04:46 PM

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Various Goings On

I've not been a Facebook user, but I was invited to join Google+, so I set up a picture and am waiting to see what it's all about. I'm afraid that for the most... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 7, 2011 at 01:58 AM

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Odd SODA Rules, and Other Conference Paper Complaints

Suresh points out we have some strange new SODA submission rules this year: Full submissions should begin with the title of the paper, each author's name, affiliation... Michael Mitzenmacher
From My Biased Coin | July 2, 2011 at 12:01 AM