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Teaching without a Net

When I first started as a professor, I felt that what students needed to do well in a class, above all else, was precise, error-free lectures, and lot’s of practice doing problems.  Based on this...

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Homework and the Internet

This is what I have been reduced to: “Let P (x), Q(x), R(x), S (x, y) be the predicates, “x is a true dungeon master”, “x has sex appeal”, “x is a wood-elf ”, “x is a friend to y”. Translate the...

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Great Ideas in Distributed Computing

You’ve got 3 hours to cover the most interesting and important results in distributed computing.  Your audience is eager, young scientists in diverse disciplines: biology, economics, physics,...

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Notorious Coins

My PhD student Abhinav Aggarwal wrote a really nice blog post on a problem I assigned on a final exam.  This was a kind of interesting dynamic programming problem about playing a simple game against an...

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