Papers
A Survey of Locally Decodable Codes and Private Information Retrieval Schemes
Final result of a lengthy independent research project I did with Ronald de Wolf of CWI in Amsterdam during the spring of 2007. In depth coverage of all of the latest important results in LDCs and PIR, with some modest original content. Submitted to Theory of Computing.
Named Entity Classifications
This paper is the culmination of a month-long research project conducted at the ILLC in January 2006. My component involves the classification of NEs by looking them up in Wikipedia and extracting the categories to which the articles on the NEs belong.
Talks
cSplash Talk - Intro to Computer Architecture
Slides from a talk I gave at cSplash 2008.
The Stanford Hydra CMP
Slides from a talk I gave during a Master's course on concurrent systems and architectures.
Articles
King Crimson Review
A review of King Crimson's album The Power to Believe I wrote for the UW Madison student paper The Badger Herald.
Interview with Janna Levin
An interview with physicist Janna Levin about her book How The Universe Got Its Spots.