This term I am teaching cryptography at Harvard. There had been several advances in crypto since I last taught this course at Princeton, and so I will do several things differently. The slow but steady progress towards constructing quantum computers has caused the NSA to announce that users should transition away from RSA, Diffie-Hellman and … Continue reading Teaching cryptography

The graduating bits event at ITCS was held last Friday. You can see the list of all presenters and their slides on the webpage. I enjoyed it and learned quite a bit, even if I was rather strict towards the poor presenters with the timer... Here is a summary of some of the talks based … Continue reading Graduating bits recap

A couple announcements on happenings in Cambridge: STOC/SoCG joint workshop day: this year, STOC and SoCG are co-located in Cambridge, MA, and will hold a joint workshop day on June 18th, 2016. The goal of this day is to have events of common interest to both communities and thus foster further collaboration. The schedule already includes plenary … Continue reading STOC/SoCG workshop day & ITCS graduating bits