Category: berkeley
Jul
08
I'm lucky I can type this at all; if only one-handed.
(I decided to type this once here instead of numerous times. So, if all you get from me is a URL in an email, know that my one hand is probably tired.)
While biking to Cal today I got hit by a… more »
May
19
Here are some pics taken at our commencement... a superb pic taken by Andrew Fiore (catch his album on Facebook):
A picture taken by Jens of me messin' around (link is to my flickr set):
A picture taken by me with Yuri's camera... this is… more »
May
14
Talk...
elections, certification/testing, reform, vendors, standards, open source, secrecy, privacy, patents, berkeley, problems, friends, research, policy, legal, education, iSchoolI gave my dissertation talk today. It went surprisingly well. I felt my delivery was smooth---with nary an ?um?---and people seemed interested! I?ve learned that I have to practice talks 3-4 times before I?m ready to give them. (and the ?p… more »
May
07
Statistical Solutions to Elections Mysteries
elections, news, politics, berkeley, problems, friends, research, policy, legal[Chance], a popular Scientific American-like journal for statistics, has
published a cover piece by [Arlene Ash] (BU) and [John Lamperti]
(Dartmouth), ?Florida 2006: Can Statistics Tell Us Who Won
Congressional District-13??
The piece explor… more »
May
05
ACCURATE's Comments on the VVSG
elections, certification/testing, accessibility, reform, standards, news, secrecy, patents, berkeley, friends, research, policy, legalAaron Burstein (UC Berkeley Law) and I just finished a large regulatory filing that will be of interest to any of you election technology geeks out there. Enjoy and be sure to let us know if you have feedback (there's another round of comments sometime… more »