I called human resources at Northwestern with a question about health insurance. After she had trouble tracking me in the system we discovered Northwestern had...
(Guest Post by Ken Regan) A two-day symposium in honor of Richard J. Lipton's 60th brithday was held April 27--28 in the brilliant new Klaus Advanced Computing...
A few months ago I was looking into some of the origins of Ramsey Theory (in particular I was looking at what Hilbert needed Hilberts Cube Lemma for) and I...
In my last post I told of a Masters Thesis that vanished from the web, into the night. I suspect I am one of the few people who wants a copy, hence this...
In my last post I told of a Masters Thesis that vanished from the web, into the night. I suspect I am one of the few people who wants a copy, hence this...
A speaker in a seminar talk loves to get questions during the talk for this means that at least one person is trying to follow the talk. A talk with no...
Registration has opened for the upcoming ACM Electronic Commerce Conference in Chicago (which I am general chair) July 10-12. The conference is immediately...
Uzi Vishkin wrote these ideas on how to teach a parallel computing course as a comment on my earlier parallelism post. The basic claim is that: - It does not...
What is an application? - When I took Algebraic Topology the professor said at one point I will now show you an application of homotopy theory at which point...
In my last post I had as a side comment that I maintain a website of applications of Ramsey Theory to Computer Science. One of the comments pointed out two...
So far in May I got requests to fill in surveys for Consumer Reports, industry research in IT management, a hotel I recently stayed in, new Lyric Opera dining...
Neither Bill or I will be attending the upcoming STOC in Victoria. Have no fear, we have once again enlisted an excellent guest poster to keep you all abreast...
REMINDER: Register for COMPLEXITY 2008. Deadline is June 1 for early registration; however, the earlier the better. Register here. Why should you go? - If you...
James Lee starts his guest posts from Seattle and Victoria. On Saturday, SIGACT, in conjunction with the Computing Community Consortium, held a workshop on...
James Lee reports from Victoria. STOC 2008 begins. Victoria is a gorgeous city, if a bit sterile. The population feels mostly transient. The people are very...
More from Victoria by James Lee. Jeanette Wing, the new director of CISE, kicks off the business meeting with an overview of the funding situation for theory...
James Lee finishes up from Victoria. Still at the business meeting (with a 15-item agenda), Cynthia explains that another rule of thumb was in place for...
Back in 1992, Mattel had a controversy on their hands when Teen Talk Barbie said "Math Class is Tough." Today we hear about the difficulty of mathematics about...
Two links of interest: - Complexity 2008 deadline for early registration is JUNE 1- so sign up NOW! - ACM Dissertation Awards What is of interest is that the...
Why do I remain on the editorial board of the Elsevier journal Information and Computation? Partly as loyalty to Albert Meyer, the long time editor-in-chief,...
The ACM has just announced that Dan Spielman and Shang-Hua Teng will receive the Gödel prize at ICALP for their paper Smoothed Analysis of Algorithms: Why the...
I've heard discussions in PC meetings, job interviews or just someone trying to talk me into attending a seminar: Jane has a complexity result, she shows...
(REMINDER: Complexity 2008 early-reg deadline is early-reg deadline is June 1.) I recently needed a copy of Mathematical Gems III by Ross Honsberger since I...
Rose Sloan, daughter of UIC theorist Robert Sloan, is one of a dozen finalists in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The finals will be broadcast tonight on...
BILL: Lance, I have to do a post on the Math Novelty Song I will derive and need you to tell me how to embed a You-Tube Video into a post. LANCE: I'll gladly...
After Bill's post yesterday I tried watching the I Will Derive video again and just had to turn it off after 30 seconds. So for the rest of us, here is a video...
I recently got two checks in the mail: (1) $500.00 honorarium for a talk I gave at a University (more than I thought it would be), and (2) $11.00 for book...
The Chicago Tribune wrote a feature on "nerds" in Tuesday's paper. Nerds are perceived as authentic because they're unable to follow trends. Authenticity is...
(Can still register for COMPLEXITY 2008: here) Email stories: - Recently a co-author and I both thought that the other one was not responding to emails. We...
Eldar Fischer pointed me to the following question asked on Slashdot. With the ability to get information anywhere in the world in seconds, and the virtually...
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