Sara Robinson

Contents: Selected Articles / Links

Welcome to my home page. I am a freelance journalist based in Berkeley, California, specializing in mathematics, computer science, and economics.

Here is a sampling of my articles:

New York Times Articles

• Tweaking the Math to Make Happier Medical Marriages

• Did Your Vote Count? New Coded Ballots May Prove It Did

• Russian Reports He Has Solved A Celebrated Math Problem

• Human or Computer? Take This Test

• Mathematician Fills in a Blank for a Fresh Insight on Art

• New Method Said to Solve Key Problem in Math

• Why Mathematicians Now Care About Their Hat Color

• Play Money? Not to These News Investors

• Multimedia Transmissions Are Driving Internet Toward Gridlock

• Workers Are Trapped in Limbo by INS

SIAM News Articles

• Toward an Optimal Algorithm for Matrix Multiplication

• Intriguing Mathematical Picture Merits Second Look

• Wanted: An Accurate Map of the Internet

• Math/Physics Collaboration Sheds New Light on Computational Hardness

• Computer Scientists Optimize Innovative Ad Auction

• Computer Scientist Finds Small-Memory Algorithm for Fundamental Graph Problem

• The Art of Election Polling

• For Google Investors, a Crash Course in the Mathematics of Bidding

• The Price of Anarchy

• What's So Special About Voting?

• Works in Progress: Trustworthy Cryptographic Voting Systems

• How Real People Think In Strategic Games

• Still Guarding Secrets After Years of Attacks, RSA Earns Accolades for its Founders

• Hooked on Meshing

• The Power Grid as a Complex System

• The Problem with Blondes

• Beyond Reed-Solomon: New Codes for Internet Multicasting Drive Silicon Valley Start-up

• Computer Scientists Find Unexpected Depths in Airfare Search

• More Mathematics than Meets the Eye

• Coding Theory Meets Theoretical Computer Science

• Math and the Media -- A Disconnect