muneeb

The SenSys'06 paper has all the details:

http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/publications.html

The context for a lot of "wireless sensor networks" discussion in the paper is that Adam's research group was primarily focusing on sensor networks at the time.

For example: #12 The PC (1973), this is Butler Lampson's work on Alto while at PARC. MIT (the university) had nothing to do with it. Also, #17 TCP/IP (1977), Bob Kahn was at MIT for 2 years or so a decade before working on TCP/IP.

Including such things takes away attention from "pure" MIT inventions e.g., RSA (all of that work was done by Ron Rivest while at MIT).

The title is misleading. It makes you think all this research happened at MIT.

Muneeb here, one of the devs of OneName. Just wanted to let everyone know that we got way more load than we expected and had to fire up a lot of additional namecoind servers. The new servers started coming online 1-2 hours back. So if you registered between 11am and 3:30pm EST then your profile processing could be delayed by a few extra hours. Sorry for the inconvenience, but firing up 10 extra namecoind servers while keeping the current setup from not choking was a "fun" experience :D

I need my breakfast now

this is precisely my point, we love namecoin but it needs better uses/applications of the key-value interface it exposes

Oh how do you know it's not the real khal?

Just calculate the sha256 of the passphrase and you'll get your private key for importing.

Yes, we plan to email you links to blockchain explorers in the future, so that you can track how your profile is being registered on the blockchain!

You should use your own Bitcoin address (from coinbase, blockchain.info, or Bitcoin client). We generate a default BTC address (using the same passphrase/private-key) for people who don't already have bitcoin addresses.

Completely agree with this approach. Conferences, at least for me, are not that helpful. Grad level advanced courses are usually the best resource because other people have "filtered" interesting content and organized it into some common theme e.g, I recently took Kai Li's course on "Big Data":

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring13/cos598C...

And discovered interesting papers from conferences that I'd never otherwise look at.

I guess what I was trying to say earlier was that a "PhD in CS from Stanford" is not a universal thing that can then be used to see how desirable (or not desirable) it is in the industry job market. It matter a lot what area you worked on. For example, both systems/networking and AI/ML are in high demand right now and it's very hard to argue against that (which is not clear from the article at all).

I'd be surprised if someone from http://csl.stanford.edu wrote that article. My point is that it matters a lot what area you did your PhD in and not just that you finished a PhD in CS. If your area was Machine Learning and you can't get a data scientist job then you obviously messed up. If your area was networks/systems and you can't get a programming job then you obviously messed up! Those cases are very clear (and rarely ever happen). But you can't take a specific case of working in an area outside of core systems or ML and then try to generalize it as the "PhD -- industry gap". CS is an exception, and not an example, of the PhD--industry gap. Try talking to grad students outside of CS and you'll see how envious they are of CS PhDs finding industry jobs.

The full SIGCOMM'13 paper is here:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/papers/wivi-paper.pdf

I think that more "offshoring" is part of that correction. A programmer only needs a laptop + a good Internet connection to be productive from anywhere.

I'd have to look more into the UK data, but more likely to be unemployed just sounds strange.

Oh man, now I'll have to update OS X just to try it out!

This is awesome! I can totally see myself using this. We also need better make files for Latex. Changing one line, hitting make, and then watching crap fly across your screen is not a pleasant experience ...

Yeah, it's mostly the British press but I've seen US newspapers talk about his AI or codebreaking works with no mention of e.g., Turing Machines

Yeah, my parents bought an iPad just to talk to me over Skype (I still need to take out time and get on Skype for that though). I do think parents will do anything to better stay in touch with their kids. If Path or any other service can solve that problem for them, it can be a winner in the long run.

I can't help but wonder if

Silicon Valley > Boston

a triumph of Berkeley-Stanford over MIT-Harvard?