acm-header
Sign In

Communications of the ACM

Blogroll


Refine your search:
dateMore Than a Year Ago
subjectInformation Systems
authorMichael Mitzenmacher
bg-corner

Congratulations to Hanspeter Pfister
From My Biased Coin

Congratulations to Hanspeter Pfister

Despite our really very good track record for the last decade or so, there are some people out there who remain under the misimpression that it's impossible toHanspeter...

This Week, I Am A Scientist
From My Biased Coin

This Week, I Am A Scientist

This week, I am a scientist;  I know this, because I have an article in Science.  It's nice to have something to point to that my parents can understand.  I don't...

Consulting
From My Biased Coin

Consulting

As I've probably mentioned, I generally enjoy my consulting work.  Besides the obvious remunerative aspects, consulting provides challenges, insights, and experiences...

Grading
From My Biased Coin

Grading

Some folks at the NSDI meeting were nice enough to say that it was nice that I was blogging again.  Sadly, I've been under-the-gun busy for the last several weeks...

Plane Work
From My Biased Coin

Plane Work

I dislike flying, but I have a few flights coming up.I find that engaging in "real thinking" about problems while on a plane is generally beyond me.  (I'm jealous...

The End (of the Semester) is Nigh
From My Biased Coin

The End (of the Semester) is Nigh

If you've missed it (which probably means you're not a theorist and/or a blog-reader), you should check out the (entertaining) controversies of the last week or...

Letters of Recommendation Time.  Ugh.
From My Biased Coin

Letters of Recommendation Time. Ugh.

I don't mind writing letters of recommendation for students.  It's part of the job.  It's a good thing to do. I just mind dealing with the new e-application sites...

Round Two Reviewing : An Exercise in Conditional Probabilities
From My Biased Coin

Round Two Reviewing : An Exercise in Conditional Probabilities

We're in "round 2" of reviews for NSDI, and it's brought up a problem for me I've noticed before.  I worry that, subconsciously, I'm inclined to give papers I read...

Public University Budgets
From My Biased Coin

Public University Budgets

Another topic that arose in conversations during my visit to Wisconsin was the issue of budgets, and in particular the large-scale cuts that many of the best US...

Yes, We Are Hiring (2012)
From My Biased Coin

Yes, We Are Hiring (2012)

Harvard CS will be hiring this year.One tenure-track position is geared toward systems, very broadly defined.A second tenure-track position is in Applied Math,link...

Public Salary Information
From My Biased Coin

Public Salary Information

While visiting Wisconsin last week (enjoying very pleasant company and conversation), various issues came up.For one, I was reminded (or recalled) that as a public...

CAEC: First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day
From My Biased Coin

CAEC: First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day

Giorgos suggested I remind people about CAEC, which will be next week (November 18).Still time to sign up and register.Here's the link.

Programming for Non-Programming Exercises
From My Biased Coin

Programming for Non-Programming Exercises

One of the exercises I assigned last week proved interesting: Consider n points on a circle, labeled clockwise from 0 to n-1.  Initially a wolf begins at 0 and...

A Tale of Talks
From My Biased Coin

A Tale of Talks

A bunch of talks today.Carla Gomes gave a talk at CRCS (Harvard's Center for Research on Computation and Society) to talk about her work on computational sustainability...

Funny E-mail of the Day
From My Biased Coin

Funny E-mail of the Day

I've having some issues getting straight answers over e-mail from an administrator in some Harvard office I'm dealing with.  This morning, I found the following...

This Week, We Were Doing Security
From My Biased Coin

This Week, We Were Doing Security

If you look on Yelp's engineering blog (http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2011/10/output-filtering-failure.html), you'll see Yelp's VP of Engineering, Michael Stoppelman...

Lisa Randall on the Daily Show
From My Biased Coin

Lisa Randall on the Daily Show

Last night's Daily Show (link to full episode) was on fire.The first segment was focused on SCIENCE!  The part with Aasaf Mandvi was simultaneously hysterical and...

Students are Awesome(ly Productive Right Now)
From My Biased Coin

Students are Awesome(ly Productive Right Now)

What's the use of a blog if you can't brag about your students?  And my students have all been doing great stuff, so I'm excited to let others know about theirarxiv...

An Exceptional Exponential Embedding
From My Biased Coin

An Exceptional Exponential Embedding

This week in class I get to teach one of my favorite probability arguments, which makes use of a very unusual embedding.  Here's a short description (for the longer...

ITCS Review
From My Biased Coin

ITCS Review

The list of accepted papers for ITCS (Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science) is up.  Some thoughts:1)  I have expressed reservations in the past about ITCS...
Sign In for Full Access
» Forgot Password? » Create an ACM Web Account