Algorithms and Media

There is a wonderful interview of Michael Rabin about his visit to Google at the university relations page. My favorite part is when he is asked for his advice to students and he says, "algorithms, algorithms, algorithms".

Moti Yung gets cited in Harpers by Barry Eisler.

The phenomenal Ingrid Daubechies is quoted on the game theory behind how to divide a real estate empire threeways: three parties bid, lowest bidder partitions the estate into 3 parts, then a coin flip decides the order among the other two to pick their choice of partition. The goal seems to be to get a envy-free solution.