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Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts
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Time (for those at state universities?) to switch e-mail accounts

While I've successfully resisted urges to return to blogging, I wanted to point to something. For those who might have missed this, I encourage you to go read William...

Leslie Valiant Wins Turing Award
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Leslie Valiant Wins Turing Award

About time!

Spring Semester Update
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Spring Semester Update

I see it's been two months since my last post.  I must admit, there are times I miss blogging.  I've often felt I have something interesting to post about, butClaire...

End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)
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End of Year Update from the Trenches (Area Dean News)

I last posted on Lance's blog about two months ago, so it seems a good time for an update.My class is (hooray!) finished.  I've sent out grades to the students,...

Guest Post over at Computational Complexity Blog
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Guest Post over at Computational Complexity Blog

For those still receiving this feed, I have a guest post briefly describing some aspects of life as Area Dean over at the Computational Complexity blog. 

Blog Retrospective
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Blog Retrospective

I started blogging a little over 3 years ago, as something of an experiment.  Lance had given up blogging, and I had been a reasonably frequent and opinionatedKleinberg's...

Doing the Right Thing?  (Quick Links Edition)
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Doing the Right Thing? (Quick Links Edition)

From Shots in the Dark, a pointer to a new "feature" -- apparently, there's not a tweet system recording and listing books checked out from Harvard libraries. Marc...

Conference/Journal Versions -- Transactions on Networking
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Conference/Journal Versions -- Transactions on Networking

I was recently asked to review a paper for Transactions on Networking, and noticed the following bit in the e-mail?Please note that while this paper may have had...

Various Quick Pointers, Redux
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Various Quick Pointers, Redux

There were many interesting things at the CRA Snowbird conference for CS chairs (which I missed...), but I haven't heard any blog-level discussion of their call...

How's that New Job Treating You? Edition
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How's that New Job Treating You? Edition

I told myself I'd quit blogging when summer ended.  That's a bit over a week away, as classes start September 1.  Also nicely, from the count on the right, I'mreally...

RATS roundup
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RATS roundup

I didn't see every talk (my brother lives in the area, so I took a break to see family) but I did have a fun day at RATS.  There was a brief introduction by Chris...

MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution
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MonkeyBusiness : Some Resolution

Wow.  After days of various speculation and reports from multiple new sources, Dean (Mike) Smith of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences has made an announcement...

Various Quick Pointers
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Various Quick Pointers

While it may not be news elsewhere, I'm certainly interested in the "local" case of Marc Hauser, the evolutionary psychologist at Harvard whose work has been "under...

In Need of a Few Bad Papers
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In Need of a Few Bad Papers

For my graduate class this semester, there's a lot of paper-reading, and I view learning how to critically and constructively read papers as part of the student...

STOC tutorial online
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STOC tutorial online

Paul Oka asked me to announce that the STOC 2010 tutorials are now all online.  You can find them here.

Monkey Business
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Monkey Business

I see Harvard's in the news yet again, as the Boston Globe broke a story about psychologist Marc Hauser, who is "taking a year-long leave after a lengthy internal...

Other UK Adventures
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Other UK Adventures

While in the UK, I went out to some other places to give talks -- Liverpool and Cambridge.At both places I gave my talk on our analysis of the auction site Swoopo...

Papers to Teach This Year
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Papers to Teach This Year

This fall I'm again teaching my "introductory" graduate class loosely centered on the themes of big data and communications/networks, Algorithms at the End of the...

Back from Travels
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Back from Travels

The slowdown in posting for the past month has been primarily due to travel.  For the last month, I've been in England, based primarily at the Computer Science. ...

The 2050 Calculator
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The 2050 Calculator

As regular blog-readers know, I'm a tremendous fan of David MacKay, who has gone from being a leader in the general area of Bayesian inference (author of Information...
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