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(updated: now with links to projects) A friend asked me, in reference to my post about the call for proposals for REU positions from CRA, “What kind of projects did you have them work on?” Two years ago, I proposed two projects and used one.  (I was to have two students, but sadly the shuttle [...]

The solicitation for summer research projects for undergraduates from the CRA-W is out: the DREU.  I highly recommend proposing a project.  For those who haven’t heard of it, the DREU are Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (from Underrepresented Groups in Computer Science and Engineering). How it works: profs suggest projects; students apply; the fine people who [...]

I registered for FOCS via our school’s accountant.  It seems to have caused an automatic registration to ActiveAdvantage, run through active.com (which handled the FOCS registrations?).  After a one month “free trial membership”, the school’s credit card was charged $59.95 for a “membership renewal”. You may want to check your credit card bill to see [...]

Oregon State University is hiring!  In computer science! 4 positions! In algorithms! Okay, sure, they are probably not going to hire 4 algorithms people, but algorithms is in the list of targetted areas: We seek strong candidates with a commitment to quality teaching and with research strengths in the areas of programming languages, algorithms with [...]

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 [...]

In my grad algorithms class, I taught matroids.  This was last Thursday and came on the heels of a class and problem solving session on greedy algorithms.  The class, I think, went well.  I went slowly (Socratically), building up the definition of a matroid using the graphic matroid as an example, motivated by Kruskal’s algorithm [...]

It has happened several times to me now. I (sub)review a paper for a conference and for one reason or another the paper is rejected.  The next conference deadline rolls around and I get a request to review the same paper.  I have never turned down these requests until today, and even today it was [...]

Via Kirk Pruhs, and, I am sure, to be reported elsewhere: 10,000 free round-trip tickets to SODA Japan Maybe this will help alleviate the concerns around such a remote (for the US and Europe) location.

If I didn’t see the students sitting in the lecture room while I taught and only knew who I was teaching to by the students who speak to me after class, in the hallways or in my office hours, I would think the gender ratio was at least balanced in computer science. Overwhelmingly, one-on-one, my [...]

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 [...]