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trueNathan Balon2006-09-20T07:41:00-04:002006-09-20T12:10:02Z2006-09-20T12:00:08Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115875360820067822Mobicom 2006September 25-29, I am attending the ACM SIGMOBILE Mobicomm 2006 conference in Los Angeles. I am excited about this. It will be my first time attending an ACM conference. The Mobicomm conference is one of the leading conferences in the world on wireless networks. Some of the topics that will be presented there are: ad hoc networks, cellular networks, sensor networks, wireless LANs, and meshfalseNathan Balon2006-09-15T07:08:00-04:002006-09-15T11:13:16Z2006-09-15T11:11:11Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115831867150970640Michigan's Governor RaceIf anyone is undecided on who they want to vote for in this Fall's election for Governor of the State of Michigan, I would recommend voting for Greg Creswell.falseNathan Balon2006-09-02T21:05:00-04:002006-09-03T01:10:44Z2006-09-03T01:09:59Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115724579945604872Book ChapterI submitted a chapter to be published in the "Handbook on Mobile Ad Hoc and Pervasive Communications". I was glad to learn that the chapter I submitted on vehicular ad hoc networks was accepted for publication. That was the first time a attempted to submit a book chapter, so I was happy to learn that it was accepted.falseNathan Balon2006-08-08T17:52:00-04:002006-08-08T22:49:56Z2006-08-08T22:31:54Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115507631474169520Crypto by Steven LevyI finished reading the book "Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government - Saving Privacy in the Digital Age", by Steven Levy. This was a great book and I would highly recommend it to anyone. I think people would even find it interesting if they aren't interested in cryptography.
The book gives an account of the invention of public key cryptography and the people who were responsible forfalseNathan Balon2006-08-08T15:57:00-04:002006-08-08T21:27:44Z2006-08-08T21:02:44Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115507096432980197AOL Search Results PublishedAOL recently published the search results of random users over a three month period. The AOL search results contain approximately 2 gigs of data. Here is the READ ME and one of the search result files released from AOL. In total there are 10 files of search results. The file I posted contains 3,558,412 lines of text, so it gives a good indication of the typical online searches. I found it veryfalseNathan Balon2006-07-22T09:59:00-04:002006-07-22T14:35:43Z2006-07-22T14:35:43Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115357894329302518VANET 2006 ConferenceOver the last few months, I have been working on a Master's project on broadcast reliability for vehicular ad hoc networks. In early June, I submitted my initial work to the VANET 2006 Conference, sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE. I was happy to hear that my paper was accepted to the conference as a poster paper. This was the first time that I attempted to submit a paper to a conference so I wasfalseNathan Balon2006-07-16T02:19:00-04:002006-07-16T07:01:02Z2006-07-16T06:50:55Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115303265595683951GNU IndentWhen source code is inconsistently spaced it becomes very hard to read. I was using a module for the ns-2 network simulator that implemented 802.11e. The problem with the code was the author either indented 2 space, 4 spaces, or a tab. It would have taken me hours to format the code by hand, so I decided to look for a program that would do the formatting for me. I happen to try the GNU programfalseNathan Balon2006-06-29T03:04:00-04:002006-07-11T09:01:07Z2006-06-29T07:24:51Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115156589177372461IQ TestToday, I purchased the O'Reilly book "Statistics Hacks", by Bruce Frey. It seems like a decent book, although I have only read the first few chapters so far. In one of the sections the author talks about using statistics to determine if a group of people is below average intellegence or not.
I had no idea what an IQ test is like. I had never taken one before. I was kind of interested to seefalseNathan Balon2006-06-27T02:38:00-04:002006-06-27T08:09:54Z2006-06-27T07:08:15Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115139209537484326Hackers and PaintersA few weeks I ago I read Paul Graham's essay "How to Be Silicon Valley" that describes what it would take to recreate Silicon Valley in another part of the United States. Graham basically concludes that you need a lot of nerds, people with money to invest, a top University and the right type of city (e.g., good weather) to create an area where technological innovation will thrive. One thing IfalseNathan Balon2006-06-22T00:40:00-04:002006-06-22T05:13:00Z2006-06-22T05:06:31Ztag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10006613.post-115095279190822408Nostalgic Computer Networks Video
This is a computer networks video, I found a while back that I wanted to post. It is kind of interesting to see what the people's thoughts were of networks in those days. Today, networks are so common place, but at the time that this film was made it was an entirely different story. The concepts they talk about in the film are still the same as they are today. If had to guess, I would sayfalse