Theory Dish

I am a big fan of collaborations, even if they come with their own challenges. I always got further and enjoyed research much more because of my collaborators. I’m forever [...]

For the past few months, we, the STOC 2019 PC, have enjoyed the privilege of reading and discussing a lot of exciting submissions. On Sunday and Monday we will reject most of [...]

A reminder that the February 15th deadline is approaching (see https://theorydish.blog/2018/12/18/2019-godel-prize/). It is safe to assume that the paper you are excited [...]

Guest post by Amit Daniely and Roy Frostig. For years now—especially since the landmark work of Krishevsky et. al.—learning deep neural networks has been a method of [...]

If I write a post and the blog aggregator is down, does it still make a sound?   The call for nomination for the 2019 Gödel Prize is out and the deadline is February [...]

Our first TOCA-SV meeting of the academic year is coming up this Friday. Details are here, please come by if you are around. This time we will feature Shafi Goldwasser for [...]

Over the summer, the Simons Institute ran a short program (a “cluster”) on Algorithmic Fairness, which I briefly discuss: here. This was only one instance of a [...]