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Can you ever be denied Full Prof? Can you ever really fail a PhD defense.?

Is it possible for someone to be denied Full Prof? Yes, but it is rare. Is it possible for someone to fail a PhD defense? Yes, but it is rare. These questions...

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Conflicts of Interest

a conflict-of-interest? Some thoughts. Thought One PROF: I can't vote on Professor X's Full Prof case since I have a conflict. CHAIRMAN: (There areThought...

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Jobs- who ended up where? You tell us!

Within CS theory who ended up at what jobs? Neither Lance nor I knows this. But YOU do--- collectively! So, I ask you, the readers, to leave comments about who...

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Is this solution cheating?

Consider the following problem: A hole is drilled through the center of a sphere. The cylinder-with-caps is removed. The length of the removed cylinder (itHere...

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The P vs NP quiz Show. NP! NP! NP!

Some random thoughts about quiz shows. THOUGHT ONE: There could be a quiz show based on P and NP. We all think that FINDING an answer is harder than VERIFYING...

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The Lefthanded Latino Lesbians in Algebraic Topology Workshop

There was a Women in Theory Workshop at Princeton From June 19-23. ***SORELLE***, who was there, has some intelligent and interesting things to say about it...

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Talking about your work with a layperson

How to best describe what we do to the layperson? It depends on what you mean by layperson. I was in Austin Texas visiting my nephew Jason. I was also giving...

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Foundational ... or simply a curiosity (Guest Post by Vijay Vazarani)

(Guest Post by Vijay Vazirani) Foundational ... or Simply a Curiosity? Conventional wisdom has it that whereas linear programs have rational solutions,...

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CCC 2010

( Reminder:Deadline for submitting to special issue of Theory of Computing in honor of Rajeev Motwani is July 30. See here. ) CCC 2010! Ran Raz gave an...

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Alternative Careers for Logicians

(Will post on Complexity next week. I am waiting until the invited talks have their slides online so that I can point to them.) Lets say you just got a PhDacademic...

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Another post on Martin Gardner

(I will post about CCC 2010 later in the week.) Several people have posted on the death of Martin Gardner: Complexity Blog (Lance) Shtetl Optimized (Scott)...

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Whats your Game Mr. Bond- The sequel!

(I will post about CCC 2010 later in the week.) The word Game is used in many different contexts within math and computer science. I list out all that a group...

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24: Really Bad Game Theory, technology, and science

The TV show 24 aired its last episode on May 24. The show used computers and technology ALOT, more than on most shows. Was it realistic? What it interesting? ...

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Teaching for the first time: SUBRUK's story

(Guest Post by Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram) My First-time Teaching Experience. Background: This spring semester, here at Georgia Tech, I got the opportunity...

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What should be in an automata course: Two views based on recent experience

(Joint Post with Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram) In this post, I speculated on what I might put into my automata theory course. That prompted Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram...

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When to go Low Tech

Recently someone asked me to subreferee a paper for a conference. She emailed me a pdf file but when I printed it out it was unreadable- the spacing was all off...

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Knowledge is Power!

In my last post I gave and asked for examples of people who didn't know things that they really ought to know. A commenter named Josh said posted the following:...

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What did he know and when did he know it?

Sometimes you learn a theorem in your academic career far later than you should have. Here are some examples. I didn't know the classic upper bounds on the higher...

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COLT and CCC no longer take papers in ...

The list of COLT papers are posted here. Carl Smith claimed that COLT was made possible because of THREE strands of learning theory coming together to form a...

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Ralph Kramden: Your wait is over! 3D-TV is here!

(This was written before I saw Lance's post on gadgets. This post could be called an unintentional co-post. Is that a word? Now it is!) In The Honeymooners...
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