If you spend a lot of time reading articles and research papers that you get in PDF form, then you might be interested in the latest app from the folks who brought you BibDesk. If you already use BibDesk, then you certainly want to take a look. Even though we keep our research papers stored [...]

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The Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List, a great resource for tips and info about what professors actually do (as opposed to what you learn in grad school), is now out in a weblog form, in case you’d rather read in an aggregator than a mail client: Tomorrow’s Professor Blog I’d recommend poking through the back issues [...]

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I’ve just put up the website for my current project (to be part of my Ph.D. dissertation work): LENS, a framework for program information manipulation that presents a uniform interface to selective user and automated queries about many types of program metrics, including success and diagnostic information about compiler optimizations and code generation. I’m not [...]

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Just went to see Jorge Cham’s talk “The Power of Procrastination” about grad school. There were plenty of good grad-school jokes and a general feeling of relief that comes with being in a big room full of people who laugh at the same old chestnuts about how nobody ever really feels like they fit in [...]

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Today, a group of graduating PhD students in our department met up to brief each other on what’s new and hot in their respective fields, to remind each other of what’s going on outside their respective specialties. The idea is that when interviewing for jobs, you have to hold up your end of a conversation [...]

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In a recent largescale systems seminar*, we had Bart Miller from Wisconsin talk about some of the upcoming work on DynInst. DynInst is an API for runtime code patching, which lets you do things like attach to a running program and insert your own code around every network call, or replace procedures with your own [...]

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I completely missed this year’s State of the Union address, but was pleased to see this quote from the speech: First, I propose to double the federal commitment to the most critical basic research programs in the physical sciences over the next 10 years. This funding will support the work of America’s most creative minds [...]

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I mentioned that I’d post about some of the papers I found interesting from this year’s PLDI conference. Disclaimer: for the most part this is based on reading the abstracts only, so this shouldn’t be considered a thorough review. Session one is Transactions. I will probably look through these, especially the first paper, “The Atomos [...]

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The technical program for PLDI 2006 is out now – there are certainly a lot of interesting papers in there. I’m looking through them now and will probably comment on a few of the ones I think are cool in another post. PLDI is traditionally a very competitive conference with an emphasis on experimental results, [...]

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Like most students, I’ve been asked to review papers in my area (and a few that were pretty far outside it), and I always try to do a good job – this is definitely a golden-rule situation. If I don’t take it seriously, I am absolutely convinced that karma will get me in the end, [...]

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