Math blogs vs CS blogs

I am very impressed by many professional mathematicians posting expository articles on their blog. One of the great advantages it has over just a survey article is that the comments section allows direct interaction with the author. Also, in many cases the presentation is more relaxed than a research paper and more fast paced than a book. I have examples of at least three blogs : Terry Tao’s blog , Rigorous Trivialities and The Unapologetic Mathematician , with regular detailed postings on various topics. I am wondering why there arent so many CS theory blogs? Luca’s blog is a great one that stands out in this regard. There has a been a lot of discussion about selling CS theory, see for example this post by Lance Fortnow. I think that one of the ways to do this is to write good expository articles and popularize various ideas that arise again and again in theoretical CS.

Party Snaps

Some photographs from a party on March 8th. Unfortunately I do not have some snaps of the delicious food cooked by Neha. However I am sure Amit has taken some snaps and I will ask him to send me a link to those.

Update 03/20/2008 : I have uploaded some more photos to the same folder on flickr. These were taken by Amit.

Hello world!

I intend to blog mostly about CS theory papers that I read. As I am also very interested in theoretical Physics and Mathematics, some of my posts can also be from papers in those fields. Occasionally I may discuss more mundane stuff.

Let me also use this post to test latex. .