Dear Evelyn, Thank you very much for the notice! I've had an eventful day-and-a-half, as I was interviewed Friday by Scott Simon for NPR's Weekend edition Saturday morning about my chess (anti-cheating) research. Lots of business with the World Chess Federation too. Dick and I talked a little, and we thought maybe we should let you choose from a restricted set of posts in a few categories. The blog itself has some mathematical invariants. Each post begins with the name of a personage (or a few) pictured in the photo at the top. The second paragraph begins with "Today" or some similar time word, and is short. The last section is always "Open Problems". Since WordPress.com allows only one author name, jointly-authored posts used to be indicated by Dick saying "Ken and I" in the second paragraph, but in Feb. 2012 (Dickens' 200th birthday) we introduced "Pip" as our joint-author name, because it's Dick-Ken's blog and a "pip" is like a "bit" but different. Math/CS Research---the first three representative of trying out our own research ideas http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/avoiding-monsters-and-non-monsters/ http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/progress-on-the-jacobian-conjecture/ http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/quantum-chocolate-boxes/ http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/galactic-algorithms/ http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/projections-can-be-tricky/ (Capstone on the Vinay Deolalikar P != NP proof claim episode) http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/practically-pnp/ A 10-million-page proof nobody can read. Popular/Humorous/Historical Posts http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/stoc-1500/ Guess who Mykolaj is... http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day-2014/ We always do a fun St. Pat's post---this was on "The Matrix" http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/interstellar-quantum-computation/ And an April Fool's post, though this is semi-serious---and cites "Lobachevsky". http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/hedy-lamarr-the-inventor/ General Science and Social Issues http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/perpetual-motion-of-the-21st-century/ Kicked off a year-long debate between Gil Kalai (famous combinatorialist and also co-author of the main paper critiquing the book The Bible Code) and Aram Harrow (MIT physicist/computer scientist) on whether quantum computers can ever be built. http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/the-evil-genius/ Serious side of "The Matrix"---the issues are real and happening inside your PC right now... http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/the-higgs-confidence-game/ Was picked up by several physics blogs at the time http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/the-crown-game-affair/ Kicked off my larger chess-cheating involvement. http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/cheating-or-mastering/ We have several other posts about online courses. Our Gödel interview series: http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/an-interview-with-kurt-gdel/ http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/more-interview-with-kurt-godel/ http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2013/11/15/the-graph-of-math/ The last is the longest post ever on the blog, and gives pictorial insight into much of Gödel's perspective on set theory. I fit all of it on one small blackboard :-). Sincerely and thanks, ---Ken On 6/20/2014 7:31 AM, Evelyn Lamb wrote: > Dear Kenneth and Richard, > I co-write the AMS Blog on Math Blogs, and I'd like to feature your blog there soon, possibly next week. I just wanted to give you a heads-up and ask if there were any posts you were particularly proud of or think are particularly important that might be good to highlight. As a geometer, I've been interested in the more mathematical posts: computer-assisted proofs, Weierstrass's "monsters," and so on. But perhaps there are some posts that are more computer science-focused that I shouldn't neglect. > Thanks for the blog-I enjoy learning a little about the more human side of computer science! > Best, > Evelyn