Lance Fortnow
Computer Science Professor at Northwestern University
Northwestern CS Professor
Computer Science
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Bill writes about the Turing and Waterman awards and the diversity in CS. http://bit.ly/drjlkM
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It's Official: Subhash Khot selected by NSF for its Highest Honor. http://bit.ly/cerUlZ (via @jefferickson @NSF )
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Bill evaluates many homework policies. http://bit.ly/avAteb
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Chuck Thacker, developer of first modern PC, wins the Turing Award http://bit.ly/brHAqe
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ACM Electronic Commerce accepted papers http://bit.ly/aGiBHY (via Noam Nisan)
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Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi among three hired in Maryland CS http://bit.ly/bCS2SM
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If you take a class from Bill, hope your dog doesn't die on a Wednesday. http://bit.ly/cOckub
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NYT Kindle article "James's Math Finds a Prime Number" on LeBron changing from 23 to 6. Title changed online. http://nyti.ms/cqlJZk
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Having fun walking through Microsoft's co-author graph http://bit.ly/bHR9wa
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New opera on the French Mathematician Emilie du Châtelet http://bit.ly/aDz1YC Some video at http://bit.ly/aIzUmK
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The Prisoner's Dilemma is less of a dilemma when paid in chocolate. http://bit.ly/cVhOib
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Retweeted on http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2010/03/71459/twitter-is-for-geezers-and-the-man Am I the geezer or the man?
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Currently reading "Out of their Minds", biographies including Dijkstra, Rabin, Knuth, Tarjan, Cook and Levin http://bit.ly/b1MBgU
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Your paper might appear on Arxiv or ECCC, be widely read and even well cited. But don't think that it is in any way "published".
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Bill on the Hill http://bit.ly/bnUjtD
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David Johnson wins the Knuth Prize http://bit.ly/9Z8kSL
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Bill posts his comments on upcoming Complexity http://bit.ly/8YniaO
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Off to Penn State. Giving a talk on Tuesday. http://bit.ly/d5IIku
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Complexity Accepted Papers http://bit.ly/cEwwJT
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Bill asks if humans are good at math? Not really but until we meet the aliens, we are better than anyone else. http://bit.ly/drqizX
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March CACM: More Vardi on conferences, homomorphic encryption and solutions to Winkler's chocolate problems http://bit.ly/ccKwzK
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Bill gets more students than expected. Why? http://bit.ly/9WNmGu
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Purdue gets $25Mil NSF Science and Technology Center "Emerging Frontiers of Science of Information" http://bit.ly/ajxtuF
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Want a job? Get a computer science degree http://bit.ly/9uyAhc (via CCC Blog)
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Every CS Theory student is one theorem away from a thesis. It's the size of the theorem that matters.
