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[Updated May 26: writing improved based on a "referee report" by an anonymous commenter. Let me also point out that use of paper a...

If you're a theorist and you haven't been hiding at the South Pole in the past month, you probably know about the great conceptual d...

My call for confirmation worked. I got a second member of the FOCS'07 PC to confirm that 15 rejections appeared in STOC'08. So pend...

Normally, Lance has a yearly post asking where people around the theory world ended up at the conclusion of their job search. But this year ...

STOC 2008 is coming up in a few days. Though I think it is important to attend STOC/FOCS even when you don't have a paper, I was simply ...

Christ is Risen! to all the Orthodox out there. At MIT, we use the opportunity to cook some Romanian food and have a party (and an after-pa...

Via Dense Outliers , the SWAT'08 list of accepted papers is out. Evidently, if your paper was rejected, it is because *I* thought it w...