Ian Gent's Blog

One thing I had no idea about until I investigated. Within very wide limits, the number of pages in the proceedings has almost no effect on ...

Today a colleague announced a meeting by email, and I emailed to ask where it was. He replied to say "read the subject line" whi...

I'm in the middle of chairing the Programme Committee (PC) of CP 2009, the major conference for Constraint Programming. In fact I'v...

This will mean nothing if you are not a mathematician or that way inclined. If you are it's probably wrong. Somebody today brought up t...

Just heard Michael Crick on Newsnight quoting a left wing labour party member with a wonderful line attacking Blairites: "We want peopl...

Came up with a new one liner today, suitable for many situations. Tried it out on a couple of people. Say I'm talking to Bill. "...

I recently bought a new mac (Ok the University bought me one.) Anyway, since it has a larger disk, I now have about 30 Gig free on it. I...