Glencora Borradaile

Take your comment and change any gendered words from male to female and ask yourself “Would I say this to or about a man in the same situation?” For example: “This office is a lot prettier than when I was here” [to a male graduate student, while thumbing the female grad student hard at work] [...]

I missed the FOCS business meeting for no good reason.  But I heard after that there was some discussion along the lines of how many papers FOCS should accept with people vying for fewer papers and a more prestigious conference.  Apparently there were complaints from the old guys that most of the conference was under [...]