editor’s letter

DOI: 10.1145/1995376.1995377
Moshe Y. Vardi
are You talking to me?

I recently attended a rather theoretical computer-science conference, and sat, as is my habit, in the front row. The speaker was trying to convey the fine details of a rather intricate mathematical construction. I was hopelessly lost. At that point I found the talk indistinguishable from Doug Zongker’s celebrated “Chicken Chicken Chicken” talk presented at the 2007 AAAS Humor Session ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-

Moshe Y. Vardi, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF