Miscellaneous

Come to any and all of these research groups to check them out!

• I am a co-founder and coordinator of the CC (Congestion Control) research group.
• I am a co-founder and coordinator of the REFER (Research in Filtering and Recommendation systems) research group.
• I am the (rotating) coordinator of the PEDS (Performance Evaluation and Distributed Systems) research group.

I've been working on:

• stats, a statistical program designed to simplify my life as an experimental computer scientist using Unix.
• NS by Example, a tutorial designed to give a new user basics on the NS simulator mainly by giving simple examples and brief explanations based on our experiences.
• Wireless Sniffer by Example, information on how to build and use a basic IEEE 802.11 wireless sniffer from open source software and off-the-shelf wireless networking hardware.
• Host AP by Example, information on how to build a basic IEEE 802.11 wireless access point (AP) that is "open" for testing and performance evaluation.

Some select talks that are here because others have expressed interest in them:

• Notes on How to Give a Talk that I have been compiling.
• The Technology of the Game - Latency and Online Games (Harvard Interactive Media Group, Harvard, MA, USA, May 2007).
• "We've Got Game!" - Teaching and Researching Computer Games at WPI (Gamestock, WPI, Worcester, MA, USA, January 2004).
• Automated Gathering of Implicit Interest Indicators by an Instrumented Browser (with David Brown, HCI Seminar Series, AI Lab, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2003).
• Crimson - Traffic Aware Active Queue Management (CS Colloquium, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA February 2003).
• Network Game Research - Introduction and Counter-strike Analysis (PEDS Research Group, WPI, Worcester, MA, USA, January 2003.)
• "Phreak, Out!" - A Hacker's View of a Cracker (CS Colloquium, WPI, December 2001).

Other stuff I've made or written about:

I've always enjoyed making games (both board and computer). I developed a top-down shooter computer game named Arena. Hopefully, people enjoy playing it as much as I enjoyed making it!

I built an ice rink in my backyard for some winter fun.

We (my kids and I) built a dog house for our Golden Retriever, Brandi. It was a fun, family project.

We also built a go cart for zipping down hills in the summertime.