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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
Yesterday we dropped the kids off at camp and celebrated our first night of freedom by seeing a movie that does not involve a panda mastering martial arts. In...
site and asked me to Blog on it.) According to this, Math Exams in England have gotten much easier since 1951. The article also points to the exams the exams...
Can still register for CCC08: Register here. (A reader emailed me the website and asked me to Blog on it.) According to this, Math Exams in England have gotten...
(Complexity Conference next week! Register Here) (Guest Post by Manuel Bodirsky on a paper of his that applies Ramsey Theory.) In a recent paper we apply the...
Can still register for CCC08: Register here. - BILL: Lance, maybe we should have an Anonymous Guest Blogger for CCC 2008 since I am one of the local organizers...
Fast breaking news: Karp wins the Kyoto Prize! See here - Certainly deserved! - Lets all congraduate him (hmmm- this may clog up his email.) - Lets hope this...
With the kids at camp, after Iron Man, my wife and I hopped a plane to San Francisco. Did some wine tasting, saw some opera, played tourist (even riding the...
In memory of the great George Carlin, we present the seven dirty words you cannot say at the Complexity Conference. - Constants - Algorithm - Application -...
Bill and I revived the Complexitycast by talking about the Complexity Conference. The discussion ran long so we will post the podcasts in parts. In Part I...
Comments on being on the local arrangements committee for CCC 2008. - The local arrangements comm. was a joint effort with Richard Chang and Marius Zimand....
In the second half of our podcast (22:34, 20.6 MB), Bill and I talk about the debate over special issues at the business meeting between Joachim van zur...
A commenter requested a written post on the special issue debate (our podcast already has it but he or she and others may have a hard time accessing our words...
I received two "Dear Colleague" letters over the weekend. Jennette Wing, current head of the Computer & Information Science & Engineering directorate at NSF,...
Check out kdphd.blogspot.com a new blog by a ***SORELLE*** a female theorist. Her first blog is about a women-in-computing workshop she went to. What will...
(***SORELLE*** requested and approved this message, though I wrote it.) There is a new theory blogger on the scene and as you read that sentence you may be...
A chemist earlier this week called computer scientists famous procrastinators with our uncanny ability to put off to tomorrow what we could have done today....
(This is the first of two postings about Attendencd at CCC. Todays is about history. Next time I post (probably Wedensday) I'll talk about College Park and...
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