A guest post from Krzysztof Onak:

A few recent workshops on sublinear algorithms compiled lists of open problems suggested by participants. During the last of them, in July in Dortmund, we realized that it would be great to have a single repository with all those problems. After followup discussions (with Alex Andoni, Piotr Indyk, and Andrew McGregor), we created a wiki page at http://sublinear.info/. Currently, it only contains open problems from the aforementioned workshops, but we invite submissions of inspiring problems from all areas of sublinear algorithms (sublinear time, sublinear space, etc.). Additionally, we want to compile a list of books, surveys, lecture notes, and slides that can be useful for learning about different areas of sublinear algorithms. We hope that this wiki will not serve only spambots, which have already been raiding it for a while, but it will also be a great source of inspiration for the whole community.

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December 12, 2012 at 7:35 pm
minilek
Awesome idea! A quick observation: some of the open problems listed have been resolved, or partial progress has been made. Has any convention been established on where such notes should go, or how they should be formatted?
December 12, 2012 at 11:37 pm
Amit Chakrabarti
I had the same question. My suggestion is to mention such progress on the page for the problem, even if there’s going to be other pages where the progress is mentioned.
-Me
December 12, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Andrew
I think this is exactly Krzysztof’s plan. See http://sublinear.info/index.php?title=Open_Problems:23 and http://sublinear.info/index.php?title=Editing
December 13, 2012 at 12:09 am
Krzysztof
Thanks, Andrew! Yes, that’s exactly the plan. I’ll try to edit http://sublinear.info/index.php?title=Editing to make this more clear.
December 18, 2012 at 6:37 am
He
Thanks, Andrew! That is a great idea!