Paul Goldberg

One social contribution that I tentatively attribute to Uber is popularisation of the concept of surge pricing. That is, we try to call an Uber and all-too-frequently get told that we have to pa...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2020/04/surge-pricing-anyone.html

A round-up of gloomy reading material I have been taking in. UK universities fear huge budget holes as Chinese students stay home has worrying figures about the dependence of UK universities o...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2020/04/short-term-prospects-for-uk-universities.html

For someone based in the UK who works in any kind of international market, it looks reasonable to consider how his business strategy should be affected by leaving the EU. In the case of CS theor...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2020/01/on-leaving-eu.html

Here’s an interesting-looking game that occurred to me recently; let me know if you have seen an analysis of it or something similar. Suppose that two or more competing agents can move around ...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-competitive-foraginggathering-game.html

Update on the annual Conference on Web and Internet Economics (I am on the steering committee). WINE 2019 (the 15th) will be at Columbia University, December 10-12. We could not avoid the clas...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2019/06/plans-for-wine-conferences.html

This note considers the Augar review from the perspective of a prospective student, as opposed to a typical university (Wonkhe does not fill me with enthusiasm on that aspect). Moneysavingexpe...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2019/05/augar-review.html

ACM-SIAM Algorithmic Principles of Computer Systems (APoCS20) https://www.siam.org/Conferences/CM/Main/apocs20 January 8, 2020 Hilton Salt Lake City Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA C...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2019/04/new-conference-acm-siam-algorithmic.html

In the unlikely event that we get a second referendum on Brexit, here’s how it ought to be done: Arrange all the alternatives in a line in order of “hardness” of Brexit. In may be felt tha...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2019/03/meaningful-votes.html

At one point in Iain Banks’ novel The Wasp Factory , the main character (a troubled teenager called Frank) makes the following observation: > Often I’ve thought of myself as a stat...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-will-of-people.html

I was talking with a journalist yesterday - not an interview, just an informal conversation - and he asked me the question: What stories in Computer Science are not getting enough attention? And...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-do-you-know-that-deserves-more.html

I received a request to call attention to the following, but will refrain from sharing it with the Theory of Computing blog aggregator since others have already done so (for example here ). In...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2018/04/stoc-child-care.html

New web sites for conferences later this year in Algorithmic Game Theory: 11th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) Beijing, China, from the 11th to the 13th of September...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2018/04/sagt-and-wine-2018.html

I was recently talking with an historian who mentioned to me that when Stephen Hawking lost the use of his hands (so could no longer write on a whiteboard), he had to switch from thinking algebr...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2018/03/thinking-algebraically-or-geometrically.html

Doctoral research in data science: studentships to begin in autumn 2018. The application deadline is midday on 30 November 2017. Here is a link to the full advertisement , with details about wh...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2017/10/2018-alan-turing-institute-doctoral.html

Associate Professorship of Algorithms and Complexity Theory with Tutorial Fellowship at Hertford College UNIVERSITY of OXFORD http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/1383-full.html Applications are in...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2017/09/job-associate-professorship-of.html

A reminder about the 13th WINE conference: Link to conference web site Link to Call for Papers (deadline is 2nd August 2017) Over the past decade, research in theoretical computer science,...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2017/07/wine-2017-conference-on-web-and.html

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) attempts to measure teaching quality by looking at a collection of metrics obtained from universities, and universities recently received (provisional) g...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2017/06/new-idea-for-tef.html

A Google search for Brexit and game theory finds a number of web pages that discuss models of the negotiation process, constructing payoff matrices in which the parties to the negotiation choose...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2017/06/brexit-and-rubinstein-bargaining-model.html

The PC chairs asked me to advertise that the submission deadline for the 2017 symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory is now the 5th of May.

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2017/04/sagt-2017-deadline-extended-to-5th-may.html

The official call for nominations is at this URL at the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), below is a copy: DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2016 VERY IMPORTANT: all nominees...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2016/10/eatcs-fellows-2017-call-for-nominations.html

I liked the Guardian article ‘Value for money’ can’t be the only measure of university , one reason being that it calls attention to Michael Oakshott’s 1950 essay The Idea of a Universit...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2016/08/graduate-wage-premium.html

The EU referendum has been interpreted as showing a nation divided by age (older people more likely to have voted Brexit), or possibly affluence, or alternatively geography (as in: Scotland and ...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2016/06/note-on-eu-referendum-ex-post.html

The June 2016 issue of the Oxfordshire Observer, a newsletter from the local Liberal Democrats, had the headline “Remain for prosperity”, and from the article: “Thousands of jobs in the co...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2016/06/notes-on-eu-referendum.html

A quick note of thanks to the organisers of Bristol Algorithms Days , a 2-day workshop (just ended) featuring talks on ongoing work on algorithms and proof techniques for analysing their propert...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2016/02/bristol-algorithms-days.html

Back when I was a student I was a fairly enthusiastic Go player, and always liked the fact that it seemed to be resistant to efforts to make a strong go-playing computer program. (At any rate, ...

http://paulwgoldberg.blogspot.com/2016/01/go-playing-ai.html