Emanuele Viola graduated from Harvard University in 2006 under the supervision of Salil Vadhan. At the time of this submission he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Avi Wigderson complains that it will be very difficult to be original here with every submission. "To lower the standards, let me mention the following two personal items. First, one of my favorite poems is `Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost. Second, I recently saw a wonderful performance of `King Lear' in the Kirby Shakespeare Theater in Madison, NJ, with a superb Daniel Davis as Lear."