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Chaining Method workshop – travel funding

March 28, 2016 ~ Boaz Barak ~ Leave a comment

Jelani Nelson tells me there's travel funding for the workshop at http://toc.seas.harvard.edu/cmacs for postdocs and students, but the deadline to apply is next Friday (April 1). Instructions to apply are at the link above.

The iPhones of terrorists

March 4, 2016March 13, 2016 ~ Boaz Barak ~ 6 Comments

On December 5, 2015, Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik entered the banquet room in the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California wearing ski masks and holding semi-automatic pistols and rifles. They shot and killed 14 people- parents, spouses, children who will never return to their loved ones. It is the right, and indeed the duty of … Continue reading The iPhones of terrorists

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