Glencora Borradaile

Many blogs have already piped up on the THE article on the deadly sins of academia (thanks to Gordon Wilfong for first directing me to it).  The article isn’t entirely at fault and meant to be in good fun.  The section on Lust, though, by Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham contains such gems that [...]

I had my first department retreat today.  I should have gone to the one at Brown when grad students were invited, but I skipped it – it was during one of my “I hate grad school and I just want to curl up and think about how I will never graduate” phases.  A topic for [...]

Bill Gasarch asked me to make a statement about my blog and in responding to him, I realized I might as well post it here. This blog will likely be YATB (yet another theory blog) – hopefully I will have something new and interesting to say.  I’d been subscribing to the Theory of Computing Blog [...]

One of my first professorial tasks will be a 4-minute talk to incoming grad students. I don’t expect any of the students in the audience will be explicitly interested in algorithms research.  After all, when they applied, there weren’t any algorithms profs here to advise them.  So, I’m not sure what the best use of [...]

I just started – a week before my official start date – as an assistant professor at Oregon State University in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  I feel very luck to be here, to have landed a job in a year when many of few job openings were rescinded because of the [...]