The Matt Faus Blog

One of the greatest schools for studying Computer Science is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Luckily, MIT has opened up all courses with their OpenCourseWare program. So, you can teach yourself all MIT courses at home! This includes video recordings of all lectures, homework assignments (with selected answers), projects, and exams. The only thing that’s missing is the insane deadlines and tremendous stress! (Rumor has it that MIT had to institute additional vacation days in their academic schedule to reduce the suicide rate).

Another great one is ADUNI. If you don’t want to instal RealPlayer, most of the videos are hosted on Google Video.

flock is literally part of the fabric of our social, cultural and economic history

Apparently, flocking is the technique used to give certain surfaces more interesting demeanor. We all know and love flocking, but if you’ve ever wanted to dive into the depths of flocking and how it has changed the face of the world we live in, you might want to check out this exhibit:

http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/news/sector-news/flockage-the-flock-phenomenon

German expedition, anyone?

It is rare that the work I do in academia can be appreciated by non-geeks, so here is a link to a presentation I gave in my Technical Communication class. I’m a pretty big nerd, so I know it’s not the best presentation in the world, but I think I did OK.

Size = 46MB, Duration = 8min

Download the video

PS - If you want to see my tree agreement protocol simulation over 7 servers and 10 (or more!) clients, let me know.

Stumbled upon this today as I was working on my Database Design project. Thought it was pretty interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimber

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Calendar.html#UNDECIMBER

As I was working on my distributed agreement protocol project for my advanced operating systems class I wanted to see how many lines of code I had written so far. As fate may have it, it was exactly 1000 at that instant.

{net33} wc -l ./*.cpp
143 ./client.cpp
284 ./server.cpp
339 ./TVPLib.cpp
234 ./TVPMessage.cpp
1000 total