Let There Be Light

I just released TopGen, a topology generator for users that want to evaluate internet modeling algorithms which include variants of Barabasi-Albert and FKP. The package also includes TopAnalysis, a graph analysis tool for a few common metrics.
Both tools were initially written in 2005 for my undergraduate thesis. TopGen was later extended to include more […]

Two weeks ago I had my screen at work upgraded to a  23″ Dell. I figured that I had to find a way to take advantage of the “screen real estate”.  After a bit of google searching I ended up choosing xmonad, a tiling window manager. I can see the difference a couple of days […]

Website for Adball at http://www.adball.com is up and running. Stay tuned for updates.

I just submitted for review in the First ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Online Social Networks a paper which  is about measurements in Facebook with focus on application dissemination .

As I was looking for guitar related applications in Linux I found a game called “Frets on Fire” which seems to be the same as the Guitar Hero game (as seen from the recent Southpark episode). Pretty addictive even with the four initial songs available only. As easy to install as typing:
apt-get install fretsonfire fretsonfire-game […]

Captchas are widely used in the Internet to differentiate between humans and computer. The basic idea is to detect automated programs by using a simple challenge that supposedly any human would be able to respond and subsequentially deny service.
Recent research on this area is focusing on exploiting these “human cycles” for meaningful human computation. […]

Citeseer contains a list with the estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science up to 2003. The parameter that determines impact is the average citation rate over all articles in a given year. Self-citations do not count.
Microsoft Libra seems to be more up to date (at this moment until […]

The last 3-4 weeks I’ve been running Windows XP through Vmware using the free Vmplayer 2.0 package provided by Vmware itself. The exciting thing about this is that Windows are running directly from the physical partition on top of Linux. This may prove useful sometimes for applications/scenarios that definitely need Windows i.e. I still find […]

Best wishes for 2007.

Welcome to my blog. Finally the quarter is over and I can find myself some free time. My intention is to post comments or report interesting event/stories on this web page. Any feedback through comment posting is appreciated.