TCS Women Rising Star talks are happening as part of TCS Women STOC Spotlight Workshop. Seven Rising Star speakers are lined up, all of whom are planning to be on the job [...]
Crucial decisions are increasingly being made by automated machine learning algorithms. These algorithms rely on data, and without high quality data, the resulting decisions [...]
Directly from the organizers: ———– Dear colleagues, We invite you to nominate speakers for TCS Women Rising Star talks at STOC 2019, which are planned [...]
Despite (or because of) being a devoted theoretician, I truly enjoy every occasion when theory influences practice. I therefore felt quite a bit of satisfaction when our [...]
The wonderful Women in Theory is, like so many other events this year, virtual in 2020 (physical meeting postponed to 2021). And it is happening today! The virtual meeting [...]
Last quarter, I taught a course on research methods in TOC, which gave me an opportunity to think through many aspects of research. I was promoting a human-centric [...]
(This blog post is based on joint work with Dima Kogan.) One of the great unsung perks of being a college student is having access to the university library. There is [...]
While APPROX/RANDOM 2020 was scheduled for September, we decided to reduce uncertainty in these stormy days and declare it to be virtual already in the CFP. We hope to have [...]
FORC 2020 accepted papers are out. Despite the last minute announcement and minimal advertising of this new conference, we have an exciting and strong program. This confirms [...]
Machine learning on big data sets takes a significant amount of computational power, so it is often necessary to offload some of the work to external distributed systems, [...]