Microsoft researcher and Turing award winner Jim Gray is missing at sea after taking his boat out on Sunday. The Coast Guard continues the search. We can only...
Only one topic dominates discussion in Chicago these daysthe Bears in Super Bowl XLI , America's biggest sporting event. The Bears last played in the Super...
I woke up to see one of my complexity submissions accepted. But soon the other two were rejected. Then the Bears lost. The list of accepted papers for...
A reader asks You've told us what to wear and how to give the talk at my interview. Any tips for the rest of the trip? Aside from your talk and a nice dinner,...
The president sent out his proposed budget for FY08 (starting October 1, 2007). The NSF in general and CS in particular do quite well. The CRA Blog has the...
As an undergrad at Cornell in the early 80's, I witnessed the movement to encourage the university to divest their endowment holdings in companies that do...
I am on vacation and off the internet for most of next week. Bill Gasarch will bring you his wit and wisdom in my absence. A few of the accepted papers of the...
Bill Gasarch again. Martin David Kruskal was a brilliant Mathematician who passed away in late December, at the age of 81. (His brother Joe, still alive, did...
Guest Posting for Guest Blogger Bill Gasarch, Guest Poster Clyde Kruskal. At my fathers memorial service, here is how I ended my remarks. I want to share a...
Two quirky computer events over the vacation. I enter events in my online calendar in Lance-time, i.e., at the time in the time-zone I will be in when the...
As many of you know, the accepted papers for STOC '07 has been posted. And in that great circle of theory life, the FOCS '07 Call for Papers is out. Submission...
I have received some questions recently asking me advice for topics on which I have previously posted. So here are links to postings to help your graduate...
Frances Allen will receive the 2006 Turing Award (the most prestigious CS prize), the first woman to win the award. -- Posted by Lance to Computational...
A reader writes about coming across a 2003 CIO article about Google Research Director Monika Henzinger and being quite surprised to read the following: But it...
The Economists have a Job Market Wiki listing interviews and offers in mostly academic economics departments. The wiki is far from complete and likely not...
In the wake of a misleading Economist article on the D-Wave quantum computer, Scott argues why he believes quantum computers cannot efficiently solve...
The two-body problem , finding two academic jobs in the same city, is becoming an epidemic in American universities. Some administrators have estimated nearly...
The US tries again with a new series of one dollar coins but will again fail since we still have the dollar bill. I have heard calls for eliminating the dollar...
On last week's Numb3rs episode One Hour , Charlie, the mathematician, and Amita, his colleague/girlfriend, had the following conversation: Charley (to Amita):...
CompUSA, the "computer superstore", is closing more than half of its stores including all of them in the Chicago area. Tough competition came from many...
A fun fact from a McDonald's Happy Meal bag. You can jump six times higher in space. What does "jump" or "higher" mean in space? Given the pictures on the bag...
The Electronic Commerce accepted papers have been posted. EC will be held as part of the FCRC in San Diego in June. EC has also announced workshops on...
A reader asks how the tenure process works in US universities. I will describe a typical case but the system works differently depending on the particular...
My 6th grade daughter takes the ISATS (Illinois Standard Achievement Tests) this week, tests meant more to evaluate the school than the students. Despite the...
I just returned from visiting the University of Toronto, my first visit to the campus in 18 years. I spent much of my time talking to the same people I did...
The long-running Jeopardy television game show had a first on Friday, when all three players ended up tied for the first time . The three contestants on the...
The NSF has posted a search for a new theory program director to take over after Bill Steiger's term expires this summer. The program director plays a critical...
The Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) has opened registration and housing . FCRC, held June 8-16 in San Diego, is a mega-conference including STOC...
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