Don Knuth on General Principles
In the last post (at least for now) of our advice-sharing project, we now share the final installment of Don Knuth’s advice (also see his first and second posts). [...]
Research Life
LGBTQIA Meeting Eurocrypt
Guest post by Chris Brzuska (also appeared at Luca’s blog) [...]
An ad-hoc committee on sexual harassment and more
From Yuval Rabani ——- Recently, many theoreticians have become aware of issues, stories, and rumors concerning sexual harassment within our community, in other CS [...]
If You’ve Been Sexually Harassed
The recent anonymous post by a female theoretician about her experience of sexual harassment and rape, made it very clear that we (the TOC community) are not immune to evil [...]
Ilya Mironov: inspiration in a quote
Next on our advice-sharing project, Ilya Mironov of Google Research shares two inspirational quotes/tips (q-tips?). There’s, of course, a difference between a tip and [...]
Tips by Ashish Goel
Next on our advice-sharing project, Ashish Goel shares advice he got and advice he gives. I was really excited about a new approach to decision [...]
Donald Knuth – On Writing up Research
Previously on this blog, Don Knuth gave advice on doing research, as part of our shared-tips project. This time, he is sharing some of his view on writing up research. Of [...]
Li-Yang Tan: “lock in” seemingly small progress
Continuing with our advice-sharing project, Li-Yang Tan shares with us an excellent research habit. Would you share habits that work for you? For me, one of the most [...]
Joan Feigenbaum – not the Best, but Good Enough
The next installment of our sharing-advice project. For the ten colleges who only hire “the best in five years” and for all of us as well. Just a few weeks ago, I [...]
Code of Conduct for TOC
If you haven’t read the important and heart wrenching post by a brave female theoretician about sexual harassment and rape as part of her academic life in our community, [...]
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