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Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers

Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers

Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers

Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers

Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers

Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers

Disoriented Canadian moose after drinking two Belgian beers

Luc Devroye

☞ School of Computer Science
McGill University
3480 University Street
Montreal, La-La Land H3A 0E9
☏ +1(514) 398-3738
♂ lucdevroye@gmail.com
☭ McConnell Eng. Bldg #300N

(Home)
3425 Redpath
Montreal, Canada H3G 2G2
☎ +1(514) 849-1564

Biography. Born in Tienen, Belgium, too long ago. Grew up in Tienen and went to the University of Leuven (Belgium). Got married to Bea. Studied for two years at Osaka University (Japan). Obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas in 1976 under the supervision of Terry Wagner, with a thesis entitled Nonparametric Discrimination and Density Estimation. Joined the School of Computer Science at McGill University in 1977 as a young snotnose. Recognized by his peers as a slum dog in 2008, an inglorious basterd in 2009, an artist in 2012, and a gentleman / wolf in 2013. Thanks to a wonderful bunch of students and colleagues all over the world, still hanging in there. Will never retire. Read this piece by Julius Grey, this piece by Julius Grey and L.-M. Casgrain, and this quote by Walter Crowley to understand Luc, and listen to Jeremy Rifkin to worry with him. He supports fundamental research following the model of Daniel Zajfman and Weizmann Institute.

Research

✎ Scribbles ⦿ More scribbles ⦿ And more ⦿ ArXiv ⦿ Dropbox ⦿ Books
Research lab: CARP
Analysis of Algorithms Home Page ⦿ AofA 2012 ⦿ ⚒ Workshop and conference schedule
Random trees ⦿ ❡ Type design (research) ⦿ Type design (link pages)
McGill: DMO Seminar ⦿ DMO Home Page ⦿ CRM ⦿ ISM
NSERC ⦿ NSERC Research Portal ⦿ Old NSERC Research Portal ⦿ NSERC Award Engine ⦿ CCV (Canadian Common CV) ⦿ FQRNT ⦿ TOMACS login ⦿ Journal of Mathematical Statistics and Learning login ⦿ Mathematical Statistics and Learning ⦿ ESAIM login ⦿ IMS login
MathJobs login
✍ Publishing: Jim Pitman's views (same as mine) ⦿ Support Pitman's effort ⦿ Gowers against Elsevier ⦿ Custodians online ⦿ Liberté, égalité, fraternité ⦿ No blind refereeing ⦿ Ten commandments ⦿ Abolish conference papers ⦿ Bring on the drugs
NSERC: Stop using the common CV
CiteSeer.IST ⦿ Google Scholar ⦿ Webmaster tools ⦿ Google Book Search
⚗ Vašek Chvátal's home page
✞ Philippe Flajolet: 1948-2011

Feeding

Feed lots and manure collection:

Undergraduate roughage on algorithms data structures: CS252B (I am feeding the horses right now, January-April 2018). I will service the big barn, CS251, and not CS252, during the 2018-2019 academic year.

Undergraduate roughage on data structures and algorithms: CS251B (I will feed this again in January-April 2019).

Graduate oats on probabilistic analysis of algorithms: CS690A (These juicy bits are available every year in the Fall term, including in September 2019, and every year after that until they find my body under my desk).

♘ My current racehorses: Erin McLeish, Tommy Reddad.
♙ My current ponies: Konrad Anand, Shruti Bhanderi.
♕ Retired racehorses: Xing Shi Cai (China), Claude Gravel, Nicolas Fraiman (Uruguay), Omar Fawzi (France), Jamie King, Nicolas Broutin (France), Perouz Taslakian (Armenia), Ebrahim Malalla (Bahrein), Henning Sulzbach (Germany and UK).
♖ Current stallion: Abbas Mehrabian.
▤ NII (internship program at National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo)
▤ The Aaron Swartz Library (open to all McGill herbivores)

McGill University

✑ Search within McGill ⦿ My McGill (internal) ⦿
✒ School of Computer Science ⦿ Colleagues ⦿ McGill University ⦿ McGill news ⦿ Key Dates ⦿ McGill events
♿ McGill Library ⦿ On-Line Journals ⦿ Springer link

Montreal

☂ Canadian weather ⦿ Montreal weather ⦿ World radar ⦿ Quebec radar ⦿ Montreal radar
World clock
Castel Durocher (recommended hotel in Montreal) ⦿ Le Butterblume (among Lesley Chesterman's top two brunch/lunch places in Montreal)
✈ Airport codes ⦿ Expedia ⦿ Booking.com ⦿ Air Stro nzo ⦿ Miles and More ⦿ SkyTeam ⦿ Montreal arrivals and departures

Private

Official picture for the media
Google stuff: Google ⦿ Gmail login ⦿ Google Talk ⦿ Google Calendar View ⦿ Google Calendar Set ⦿ Google Account ⦿ Google Maps ⦿ Google Docs
Apple Developer Site. MacPorts. Online OCR. Color Code Picker. HTML Color Code Picker.
Behance ⦿ Avaaz ⦿ LinkedIn
☠ Mafiotic stuff: American Express ⦿ Bell Canada
Internet: Box.com, What is my IP address? ⦿ SOMA FM Secret Agent ⦿ Router access ⦿ ssh unix help ⦿ Alexa rank ⦿ Similar Web rank
✡ McGill links: Minerva ⦿ PCARD ⦿ Grad student admissions [log in with luc.devroye@mcgill]⦿ PhD applications ⦿ MSc applications ⦿ Hiring ⦿ GRE scores ⦿
❦ Luc's family

Stuff

Cycling news ⦿ Cycling fans ⦿ ProCycling Live ⦿ Tiz Cycling ⦿ Sport.be ⦿ Veldrijden op TV ⦿ UCI ⦿ Pedal ⦿ Henri Devroye 8th in Tour de France ⦿ Henri Devroye 10th in Tour de France ⦿ Quebec police kill cyclist ⦿ Formula One track for training ⦿ FQSC
☀ Assez de frites ⦿ Men ⦿ The world's best lecturer: G.S. Brindley ⦿ Ode to Jacques ⦿ Gangnam Style [Psy] ⦿ Luc's random forest ⦿ Google news Canada ⦿ Google news in Flemish ⦿ Urban dictionary ⦿ Urban dictionary search ⦿