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). [...]
LGBTQIA Meeting Eurocrypt
Guest post by Chris Brzuska (also appeared at Luca’s blog) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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