Creating an Inclusive Classroom
I’ve been asked by a friend to discuss ways of fostering inclusiveness in the classroom. A Stanford colleague of mine, Cynthia Lee, have posted a well thought and [...]
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Committee on sexual harassment (II)
Yuval Rabani announced here the formation of an ad-hoc committee on sexual harassment. The committee is up, with a promising set of members, a very important charge and a [...]
TCS Women
Barna Saha, Sofya Raskhodnikova and Virgi Vassilevska Williams are organizing a women’s event to take place during STOC this year. It will include a women’s [...]
The Research that Would Frustrate “the Facebooks”
Twice in just a couple of weeks, I heard a reference to Phil Rogaway’s thought-provoking talk: “The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work:” slides, video. I [...]
A Pledge for Inclusiveness in TOC
We (Edith Cohen, Vitaly Feldman, Omer Reingold and Ronitt Rubinfeld) would like to direct your attention to a pledge for inclusiveness in the Theory of Computing Research [...]
Sublinear Algorithms at MIT
From the organizers: ———————— We are organizing a workshop on Sublinear Algorithms at MIT on June 11-13, as part the MIT [...]
What else could possibly be more important?
A few weeks ago I heard the TED radio hour with NPR’s Guy Raz. The speaker was MIT’s Physicist Allan Adams. I heard an enthused and sincere-sounding speaker [...]
Testing Juntas (or “Avoiding the Curse of Irrelevant Dimensionality”)
Juntas (or, with more words, “functions of few relevant attributes”) are a central concept in computational learning theory, analysis of Boolean functions, and [...]
The Gödel Prize 2018 – deadline nearing
Many excellent and deserving theory works, but they will not nominate themselves! ————— The Gödel Prize 2018 – Call for Nominations [...]
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Access to good mentors is invaluable and a good advice at the right time is priceless. We are starting here a new project where we will collect advice that members of our [...]
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