Apps like Family Link are far from perfect but give me some level of control over my kids' screentime. But major GenAI models don't want to mess with the responsibility of releasing kids versions, so I have to give my kids access to my account. I wonder what could possibly go wrong 🤔

There is a job posting for a mathematics staff writer at @quantamagazine.bsky.social: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons... Maybe this is good for you or somebody you know! #MathSky 🧮 #iTeachMath ♾️

🤩 Excited to officially announce our upcoming local Theory-CS conference "TOCA-SV" (11/7 at Stanford): sites.google.com/cs.stanford....

Are you a PhD student in quantum computing and interested in working with our team in 2026 as a student researcher (i.e., an internship that's ~3 months and in-person at our office)? If so, apply here: www.google.com/about/career...

The new call for Motwani postdocs application is now open! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30865 BTW- Not quite ready for a postdoc? We updated the TCS Masters programs spreadsheet: www.cs.princeton.edu/~smattw/mast... Any career stage and in the (SF) Bay Area? Save the date for TOCA-SV on 11/7!

It is that time of year again to gather all the profiles of SIGecom job market candidates! Share this with any job market candidate at the intersection of Econ, CS, and OR that you may know. Candidates should complete the submission form (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...) by October 7th, 2025.

Market design is growing fast… #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/09/rece...

The otter on this small sticker is still trying to understand our algorithm (w/ Alexandros Hollender) for cake cutting with 4 agents arxiv.org/abs/2311.02075. Sticker design credit: Eva Tardos.

NeurIPS is seeking additional ethics reviewers this year. If you are able and willing to participate in the review process, please sign up at the form in the link: neurips.cc/Conferences/... Please share this call with your colleagues!

This best paper news is a good opportunity to highlight that a month or so ago I started maintaining CV of failures on my website. It will almost certainly continue to grow linearly in the number of things I attempt to do, and that’s a good thing! www.seas.upenn.edu/~ncollina/Fa...

See everyone at #ACMEC25 on Monday, July 7! And while you're there, join us July 8, 8-10pm in Stanford Econ Landau 139 for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon! Feel free to contribute to the crowdsourced list of topics that need attention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Sign up here to let us know you are interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Join us for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon at #ACMEC25! When: July 8th, 8PM-10PM Where: Stanford Econ Landau 139 Website: sites.google.com/view/econcs-... Come hangout, grab snacks, and edit/create Wikipedia pages for EC topics. Suggest topics/articles that need attention: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ICML's election for their board of directors has begun. I've thrown my hat in the ring. Please consider voting for Gautam Kamath. I have experience with the governance of TMLR, COLT, and ALT, and I think I've demonstrated myself as a consciencious and engaged community member.

Finally, a NYT word-of-the-day that I recognize ;) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/l...

Today I stumbled across a book called Algorithms for Toddlers. Perfect for kids -- or your own inner toddler! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLO...

Alphanumeric citations [ABC00] strike the right balance between compactness & communication. Plain numeric citations [1] are compact, but convey no information. Author-year citations (Aaronson, Barrington, & Coppersmith, 2000) are too verbose, even if abbreviated (Aaronson et al. 2000).

📢 To kick off 2025, our first TCS+ talk will be next Wednesday, March 5 (10amPT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CET): Prasanna Ramakrishnan (@pras17.bsky.social), from the Stanford, will tell "How to Appease a Voter Majority"! RSVP to receive the link (available one day prior to the talk): forms.gle/DDFtJKi2Xoj6...

#STOC2025 (June 23-27, Prague) Theory Fest is looking for workshop proposals. The deadline is March 9th. Apply here: stoc2025theoryfest.netlify.app

This is terrible news, and part of the ongoing assault on science in the U.S. by the new administration. To honor Tracy Kimbrel and his service to the NSF's AF division, here's a short thread about a beautiful algorithm of his, joint with Rakesh Sinha (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). 1/

🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers. sloan.org/fellowships/...

Hey SIGecom fam, what would YOU like to see in this year's #ACMEC25 tutorials? What topics do you want to learn more about? Reply here👇 and let us know!

Please nominate the most outstanding PhD dissertations in Theoretical Computer Science for the EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award. The dissertation must have been successfully defended in 2024. Looking much forward to reading your nominations! eatcs.org/index.php/di...

With tariffs, reciprocation is presumably an unwelcome side effect. How about when the issue is bribes? #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/trum...

DIMACS workshop on fine grained hardness of approximation, July 21-23 Information and registration here, looks interesting! dmac.rutgers.edu/events/detai...

I was invited to give a 30 minute talk in a local middle school. Any experience presenting TCS, especially EconCS, to middle schoolers? Thoughts on what does/doesn't work well? (For context, it's a school assembly with all the students and also some parents - not some small honors math class.)

Nominate your favorite paper for the SIGecom Test of Time Award for papers published no earlier than 2000 and no later than 2015. Nominations are due by March 14th. www.sigecom.org/awar...