I’m teaching a course called “Orientation to Computer Science“. It seems all the engineering departments have such a course at Oregon State. It acts as an overview to a degree in a particular field. I’ve been asked to teach it because I’m young and female delightful and, apparently, likely to increase retention. I’ll talk more [...]
September 22, 2011
Inoffensive stable matching
I like to start my grad algorithms course with stable matching. It is a beautiful, clean, practical algorithm. It can be covered relatively quickly and give an overview of the basics of algorithm design and analysis. I love it. What I hate is that every treatment of stable matching available online and in the textbooks [...]
September 21, 2011
How do you find conference acceptance rates?
It’s getting to be that time. Mid-tenure. I apparently am supposed to include acceptance rates for conference publications. Google got me about half the numbers, but for the rest … is it annoying to email the program chair for that conference? Even if it was a few years ago? How else would you find out? [...]