July Edition This is the August edition of Favorite Theorems. Perhaps you could easily find a satisfying assignment of a Boolean formula when only one solution...
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Sep 1, 2006 7:51 pm
A request from Claire Kenyon. We are finalizing the budget for FOCS 2007 in Providence. The traditional Saturday evening reception will cost at least $53 per...
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Sep 5, 2006 8:58 pm
What invention of the second half of the 20th century had the single greatest effect on global commerce? In a neat new book The Box , Marc Levinson makes a...
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Sep 6, 2006 7:31 pm
Claire's post on French Universities brings up an interesting point. In most countries universities are almost all funded and run by the national government....
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Sep 7, 2006 12:49 pm
Derandomizing an RP algorithm is like finding hay in a haystack. In that vein comes the following cartoon from the Danish paper Politiken (via Peter Bro...
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Sep 8, 2006 3:30 pm
FOCS registration is now available . Early registration deadline is September 18, hotel rooms held until September 29. SODA accepted papers have been posted ....
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Sep 11, 2006 11:22 am
We all have 9/11 stories, here's mine, more of a 9/12 story. Prelude . I was packing up my hotel room in Wrzburg after the 1993 STACS conference. I flipped on...
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Sep 12, 2006 4:37 pm
In the seventh Complexitycast , Bill Gasarch returns to talk about approaches to research. MP3 (22 minutes, 3.9MB) -- Posted by Lance to Computational...
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Sep 13, 2006 10:36 am
A student proves what I feel is quite a nice result but the student laments that the proof was easy, they had simply put together various tools from earlier...
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Sep 14, 2006 1:15 pm
Google for Yankees Magic Number and short down the list you'll find my 2004 post The Beauty of the Magic Number . As I write this the Yankees have 88 wins and...
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Sep 18, 2006 1:30 pm
My daughter started middle school and as parents we attended back to school night. In the evening we follow our daughters schedule and see her various...
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Sep 19, 2006 12:38 pm
The MacArthur Foundation named their 2006 Geniuses including Luis von Ahn , Carnegie-Mellon cryptography, who has worked in steganography but best known for...
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Sep 20, 2006 1:53 pm
Shing-Tung Yau, who doesn't like his portrayal in Sylvia Nasar and David Gruber's New Yorker article on the Poincar conjecture. So Yau, who apparently has ...
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Sep 21, 2006 12:09 pm
Boaz Barak reports that Bernard Chazelle has updated his essay The Algorithm: Idiom of Modern Science complete with bells, whistles, cartoons, PCP's and zero...
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Sep 24, 2006 5:04 pm
August Edition In the 70's we had essentially no super-polynomial lower bounds for natural problems on general circuits beyond depth 2. Two papers kick started...
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Sep 25, 2006 10:41 pm
A non-theorist saw the upcoming STOC call for papers and asked about the following line. Authors should submit an extended abstract (not a full paper). and...
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Sep 26, 2006 8:59 pm
Guest Post from Jrmy Barbay . In multi-authors publications from other fields (biology, physics), the order of the author's names roughly indicates the...
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Sep 27, 2006 10:19 pm
The last Electronic Commerce conference in June had a workshop on sponsored search . Sponsored search are those ads you see when you run a Google or Yahoo...
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Sep 28, 2006 2:17 pm
David Pennock, Yiling Chang and I created a Prediction Markets Map of the 2006 US Senates Elections. When you load the map it downloads the latest prices from...
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Oct 1, 2006 12:10 pm
Not the Conference on Computational Complexity but the Computing Community Consortium , a new organization funded by the NSF and organized by the Computing...
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Oct 3, 2006 12:29 pm
Quick quiz Can you submit a paper to a conference that you are not sure you can attend? You have agreed to give an invited talk at a conference. But you find ...
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Oct 4, 2006 1:11 pm
Recommendation Systems The big CS news of the week: Netflix , the online DVD subscription rental site, has announced a million-dollar prize for substantially ...
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Oct 5, 2006 11:52 am
NPR's On the Media interviewed an old college friend of mine, science writer Vincent Kiernan, about his new book Embargoed Science . "Embargoed Science" refers...
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Oct 7, 2006 9:36 pm
Tis the season that my fellow professors and I start receiving collections of brochures, newsletters and posters from various CS departments around the...
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Oct 9, 2006 6:33 pm
I hate to keep secrets but in our field much of what we discuss should be kept confidential as much as possible. What do we need to keep quiet about? ...
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Oct 10, 2006 7:41 pm
My daughter's math text list natural numbers as {1,2,&hellip} and whole numbers as {0,1,2,&hellip}. I remembered them the other way around, after all "0" seems...
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Oct 12, 2006 3:41 am
The ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) will host its first Undergraduate Student Research Competition in 2007 sponsored by Microsoft Research. From...
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Oct 13, 2006 11:06 am
Imagine back to the early 90's before we had a world-wide web. You had a new result, a nice result but not so important that you would do a mass email. You...
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Oct 16, 2006 1:10 am
Last week's episode of Numb3rs The Mole had a mildly interesting academic side story. [Mild Spoiler Warning] Charlie, the mathematician, discovered that his...
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Oct 16, 2006 9:19 pm
September Edition What is the best a probabilistic algorithm can do for the worst-case input? Perhaps it might be easier to show the limitations of a ...
