Shanghai Bound!
I’m on my way to the the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, which is a well-known operating systems conference. This time it is in Shanghai, China so I’m making my way there. I do not have the privilege of presenting anything there this trip, but hopefully I will be able to do so in the […]
For those problems that are nails, I have a sledgehammer
I’ve been involved in a project that requires I learn more about blockchain than I ever really wanted to know. I had a basic appreciation of it from reading the Nakamoto paper many years ago. It provides an insightful solution to a challenging problem – the problem of distributed consensus in an untrusted network. There […]
The advisory shuffle
Friday, October 13, was my adviser’s last day. He remains as an adjunct professor, but as such he cannot directly advise or supervise graduate students. Thus, just a few weeks into my official life as a PhD student I find myself adrift. While I started adrift, over the past 10 months I stopped drifting and began […]
“So why are you doing this?”
One of the questions that I’m often asked is “why would you want to get a PhD?” or “why do you want to do research?” Everyone that even considers pursuing a PhD will no doubt be asked this question at some point. I’ve been asked it a number of times recently, no doubt due to the various […]
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