New snapshot of my algorithms stuff, now with (unfinished) notes on languages and automata, with lots of exercises… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

An early version of the computer scientist's drinking song.  From Thomas Ravencroft's Deuteromelia (1609). plus.google.com/11132706490438…

Complexity of n-queens-completion? plus.google.com/11132706490438…

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Based on last night's vote to hold SODA 2017 in Barcelona, I am changing a rule in the Official SODA Business… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

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Things People Say When You’re A Blonde Engineer At MIT plus.google.com/11132706490438…

Hang on, hang on tight. MeFi music covers Flood, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. plus.google.com/11132706490438…

I have never taught an elective undergraduate course. I have never taught a course with half undergraduates and… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

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All possible configurations of two adjacent nodes in a full binary tree with labeled nodes.  Blue edges represent… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

On the smartest man in the room. plus.google.com/11132706490438…

What to Ask When You're Applying to Grad School MIT had EECS visit days last March, when I first wrote a draft of… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

We're not just hiring tenure-track faculty. plus.google.com/11132706490438…

Happy to share the official published version of a project I've been working for 5 years now. "Systematic… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

A poster of one of Jean-Marie Favreau's lovely drawings from his 2009 PhD thesis (which for some reason only just… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

Je suis Charlie (et Bob)! plus.google.com/11132706490438…

Hey, this sounds familiar! Well, except for the conspicuous lack of bad press, no-confidence votes, and mass… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

Yale lags Cornell University, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania in U.S. computer… plus.google.com/11132706490438…

Jíři Matoušek died earlier this week, after a long illness.  Jirka was an inspirational researcher in discrete and… plus.google.com/11132706490438…