Exactly a week after Friday the 13th was the day of celebration of 20th Anniversary of DIMACS. I was there with my notebook, a journalist for part of the day. Ron Graham led, talking about embedding graphs into the Hypercube (into {0,1,*}^D space with...

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Bala, the raconteur, reminded me how milk is sold and bought in India. The seller brings the cow over, it stands in front of your house, someone checks that the seller's milking jug is empty (eg, has no water), and the seller proceeds to milk the cow...

NY Area CS and Economics (NYCE) II meeting took place on Monday, Nov 6, and was organized by Robert Kleinberg and Eva Tardos. Jennifer Rexford led and spoke about interdomain routing in IP networks. She started with a simple model of local rules for...

I watched Men Who Stare at Goats. It is a Catch 22 in 2009 kinda movie, essentially all male, exploring psychics, US Army, goats and LSD. Hilarious and unpredictable. You can't go wrong for acting display putting Kevin Spacey, George Clooney and Jeff...