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 [...]
Ilya Mironov: inspiration in a quote
Next on our advice-sharing project, Ilya Mironov of Google Research shares two inspirational quotes/tips (q-tips?). There’s, of course, a difference between a tip and [...]
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 [...]
Tips by Ashish Goel
Next on our advice-sharing project, Ashish Goel shares advice he got and advice he gives. I was really excited about a new approach to decision [...]
Donald Knuth – On Writing up Research
Previously on this blog, Don Knuth gave advice on doing research, as part of our shared-tips project. This time, he is sharing some of his view on writing up research. Of [...]
Li-Yang Tan: “lock in” seemingly small progress
Continuing with our advice-sharing project, Li-Yang Tan shares with us an excellent research habit. Would you share habits that work for you? For me, one of the most [...]
