I’m preparing for my first global travel for global health, but the net is paying attention to a paper that I think I’ll like, and I want to mention it briefly before I fly.
Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products is 27 pages of serious TCS, but it is so obviously applicable that people [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘TCS’
October 16, 2009
Dense-Subset Break-the-Bank Challenge
October 5, 2009
Conference you should know about
This weekend marks the submission of my first “Global Health” paper. Congratulations to me! And many, many thanks to all the people who have worked with me to make it happen. I’ll go into details sometime in the future, first let me see how things go in the refereeing process.
While I was [...]
September 17, 2009
Top
I don’t feel like having that post about how big things are brewing in US health care reform on the top of my blog anymore, so here is a quick replacement: a ranking paper that caught my eye recently on arxiv, where computer scientists is applied to politics: On Ranking Senators By Their [...]
May 24, 2009
Anatomy of a Django-driven Data Server
I haven’t had time to write anything this week because I am up to my neck in this Seven-Samurai-style software engineering project. You know, where a bunch of untrained villagers (that’s me) need to defend themselves against marauding bandits (that’s the Global Burden of Disease 2005 Study), so they have to learn everything about [...]
March 31, 2009
C4G @ GaTech
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has a short piece on public-service applications of computer science that are coming out of a class called Computing for Good (C4G) that TCS star Santosh Vempala co-taught at Georgia Tech last spring.
This is an idea that is emerging in several ACO-related disciplines. Manuela Veloso has been running a [...]
January 5, 2009
Best of the Year
I didn’t make any best-of-the-year lists, but I support the idea. I also support new year’s resolutions, but I’m not going to write about mine.
But the internet picks up the slack.
FlowingData has a 5 Best Data Vis of the year list, which I’m fond of. It includes the beautiful Streamgraphs of Byron and [...]
