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...
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fortnow
May 8, 2008 2:56 pm
Registration has opened for the upcoming ACM Electronic Commerce Conference in Chicago (which I am general chair) July 10-12. The conference is immediately...
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fortnow
May 9, 2008 10:33 am
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...
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wgasarch
May 12, 2008 3:04 pm
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...
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wgasarch
May 13, 2008 2:43 pm
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...
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fortnow
May 14, 2008 10:19 am
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...
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fortnow
May 15, 2008 1:36 pm
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...
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wgasarch
May 16, 2008 5:45 pm
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...
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fortnow
May 19, 2008 2:50 am
James Lee starts his guest posts from Seattle and Victoria. On Saturday, SIGACT, in conjunction with the Computing Community Consortium, held a workshop on...
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fortnow
May 20, 2008 3:29 am
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...
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fortnow
May 20, 2008 8:09 pm
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...
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fortnow
May 22, 2008 10:08 am
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...
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fortnow
May 23, 2008 11:14 am
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...
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wgasarch
May 27, 2008 6:10 pm
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...
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Lance
fortnow
May 28, 2008 10:54 am
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,...
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Lance
fortnow
May 28, 2008 7:17 pm
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...
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fortnow
May 29, 2008 4:18 pm
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...
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wgasarch
May 30, 2008 3:44 pm
(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...
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fortnow
May 30, 2008 7:38 pm
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...
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wgasarch
Jun 2, 2008 4:07 pm
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...
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fortnow
Jun 3, 2008 10:27 am
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...
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GASARCH
wgasarch
Jun 4, 2008 3:38 pm
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...
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fortnow
Jun 5, 2008 3:26 pm
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...
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GASARCH
wgasarch
Jun 6, 2008 12:28 pm
(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...
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Lance
fortnow
Jun 9, 2008 2:45 pm
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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GASARCH
wgasarch
Jun 10, 2008 12:30 pm
(Claire Mathieu requested that we post this.) The web site for submitting papers to SODA 2009 is up and running. Please see the "Submissions" button in the...
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Lance
fortnow
Jun 11, 2008 6:24 pm
I have just finished teaching "Programming for Engineers" at Northwestern, my first time teaching a course on the C++ programming language and pushing me to...
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GASARCH
wgasarch
Jun 12, 2008 4:54 pm
There is a poster of (some of) the Complexity Zoo that was emailed to me by Ken Regan. It is on line either as a pdf file or a ppt version. (There was an...
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Lance
fortnow
Jun 13, 2008 11:47 am
An economist told me recently how he is often impressed when other economists give talks using tools and working on problems in other academic areas. "They...
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wgasarch
Jun 16, 2008 3:08 pm
(Can still register for COMPLEXITY 2008 at here.) In a comment on my post SODA 2009 CFP that Shiva Kintali pointed out that SODA is encouraging authors who...
