I've just read this, and do not have any specific comments, but I thought this interview with Lenore Blum on her recently announced resignation from CMU would be...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | September 10, 2018 at 02:53 PM
By Don Hollander The Universal Acceptance Steering Group is focused on getting all applications to accept all domain names and all email addresses. We’re doingProgress...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | September 6, 2018 at 03:11 AM
A reminder that the deadline for SOSA 2019 is August 16. The submission server is live and running (and we already have some submissions!). The easychair link...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | July 23, 2018 at 08:14 AM
Just a reminder that next week is the 50th STOC in Los Angeles! You can still come and register on site, so please come -- the program is STOC-full of good stuff...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 22, 2018 at 03:26 PM
Jeremy Fineman and I are co-chairing the 2019 Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms, the second year of this new endeavor. It's nicely co-located with SODA, and...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 29, 2018 at 08:34 AM
Just a reminder that the early registration for STOC 2018 is June 1. Besides wanting that early registration discount price, you really want to also make your...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 29, 2018 at 08:26 AM
Some SIGACT related-stuff of import:First, there's an election going on!!! If you're an ACM/SIGACT member, you've probably gotten an e-mail about this, and it's...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 7, 2018 at 02:40 PM
By Don Hollander, Secretary General of the UASG The issue of Universal Acceptance of all domain names and all email addresses is well understood by members of the...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | April 25, 2018 at 11:17 AM
Several years ago, I worked on a project where the goal was to try to come up with an "equitable" version of a measure of dependence; the idea was you could take...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 15, 2018 at 12:23 PM
I was asked to post to announce the workshop/bootcamp on Sublinear Algorithms, June 10-13 at MIT. I plan to be there and possibly talk about some new work. From...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | April 11, 2018 at 03:28 PM
The following is from Yuval Rabani, regarding a joint initiative we are moving forward with to establish policies, procedures, and institutions to deal with harassment...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 26, 2018 at 12:33 PM
I was asked to post the following notice for the upcoming Swedish Summer School for (theoretical) computer scientists. I gave some lectures for it a couple ofhttp...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 22, 2018 at 09:58 AM
For the small-ish subset of people out there who care about "learned Bloom filters" (the subject of my last post), I have a small-ish update. I guess the datafixed...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | March 6, 2018 at 03:21 PM
Download PDF Core messages at ICANN61 The UASG has several core messages that we’re working on during ICANN61: The first is working through our workshop agendas...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | March 6, 2018 at 06:02 AM
Today, International Mother Language Day, we announced support for EAI in Office 365 and Outlook.com. We are focusing on Outlook and webmail for now, though we...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | February 23, 2018 at 03:50 AM
About a month ago, a draft paper was put out on arxiv called The Case for Learned Indexed Structures by the people at Google Brain. The paper has received some...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 25, 2018 at 09:15 AM
I wanted to point people to a pair of blog posts (Part 1, Part 2) by Suresh Venkatasubramanian at the geomblog discussing the experience of having the ALENEX conference...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | January 9, 2018 at 09:27 PM
By Don Hollander, Secretary General of the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) 2017 was an important year for the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG)...Don Hollander From Universal Acceptance Steering Group | December 21, 2017 at 03:51 AM
During my time as Area Dean for computer science, the number of computer science majors at Harvard more than doubled. Growth has continued, and according to the...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 16, 2017 at 09:02 AM
A few summers ago, I had an opportunity to visit Copenhagen, and work with Rasmus Pagh for a month. I (and the family) liked it so much we went back the nextAarhus...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | November 9, 2017 at 08:02 AM