The phenomenal Ingrid Daubechies is quoted on the game theory behind how to divide a real estate empire threeways: three parties bid, lowest bidder partitions the estate into 3 parts, then a coin flip decides the order among the other two to pick their...

I may not live in the pint of a street Minetta Lane for much longer, but Minetta Lane is now in Songlines and a minute ago, I put my head out of my window, the Halloween parade had just started, a hundred or so paraders paused where Minetta meets the...

My student Andre Madeira successfully defended his Phd thesis last week. Andre is culturally universal moving across countries and languages, and CS-wise broad, working on thesis at Rutgers Univ, working as an architect for secure data storage with...

There is some discussion on Top 10 Schools in theory CS (jon) and metrics for evaluating theory faculty (luca). I tend to see this primarily as a mental exercise, so a question that would push the boundaries of reasoning a little bit more would be,...

There has been a lot of CS/Econ research attention on sponsored search, not as much on display ads. For a large part, display ads on the Internet have been bought and sold over telephone by sales teams; to a lesser extent, they have been outsourced to...