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Thesis Defended

Posted under school, networks - Apr 26th, 07 - No Comments

My MTOP thesis defense went well on Tuesday afternoon; I successfully defended my research and fulfilled my graduation requirement. There was a pretty decent sized audience, for that sort of thing, and they had smart questions. I think I did a reasonably decent job of answering them, and as expected, I have a few […]

Twitterpated

Posted under networks, social media - Apr 16th, 07 - No Comments

Twitter, for the uninitiated, is a microblogging social network site that allows users to make 140-character posts from the web, IM, text messaging, and third-party applications such as Twitterific. It provides the nifty little “badge” on my blog that shows “what I’m doing”, and has recently become quite popular, leading to service scaling issues […]

Adaptive Systems Research Proposal

Posted under school, complexity, networks - Jan 30th, 07 - No Comments

The primary assignment for EECS 594, Intro to Adaptive Systems, is to present a research proposal that uses adaptive systems to investigate an issue of interest in your field, and critique the proposals of the other students. Dr. Holland says, wisely, that this is good preparation for academia, where much time is spent in […]