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, [...]
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 [...]
Oded Golreich: Take Yourself Seriously
The next installment of our sharing-advice project is dedicated to advice by Oded Goldreich. But Oded didn’t wait for this project to share his advice and has been [...]
Christos H. Papadimitriou: on travel commitments and research focus
The next installment of our shared advice project is devoted to Christos H. Papadimitriou through his contribution and the contribution of Aviad Rubinstein. From Christos: [...]
Donald Knuth – On Doing Research
As a Stanford-based research blog, it is very fitting that we will start our shared-tips project with Don Knuth. We will split his advice to (at least) three posts (too much [...]
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 [...]
Tip Included
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 [...]
Just defined bias? Not Sure …
The theory biosphere is at “double blind review” once again: here, here, here, here and here. There are good arguments on both sides, but I fall on the side that [...]
Preprocessing attacks on the discrete-log problem
A riddle An old riddle asks: “What is something you never want, but once you have, you never want to lose?” The standard answer is “a bald head.” For [...]
