News archive

2010

[3/1] I am on sabbatical until August 31, 2010.

[2/2] It doesn't make sense to me to have to pay a touch-tone (http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2010/02/02/consumer-touch-tone-service-bell.html) fee every month - and many other Canadians agree.

[2/1] The story that just won't die... CNN Money (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1001/gallery.americas_biggest_ripoffs/index.html) quotes me on text messaging.

2009

[12/1] I did these sketches in Rome, when I was visiting for CoNext.

[11/18] I will take on three or four graduate students (MMath or PhD) starting Fall 2010. If you would like to work with me on Information Systems and Science for Energy (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/iss4e/wiki/index.php/Main_Page): specifically, the application of computer networking to energy generation, transmission, and consumption (e.g., control of distributed energy generation systems such as solar and windmills, building monitoring, and modeling of networks of plug-in hybrid cars), please email me your CV and transcript.

[10/13] I am finally done with the chapter on Linear Algebra in the second edition of my book (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/wiki/index.php/Book). Here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/09/2e-oct909.pdf) is a link to the complete first draft. Videos of lectures on most of this material can be found here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/mediawiki-1.4.7/index.php/Mathematical_Foundations_of_Computer_Networking).

[10/2] My editorial (http://themarknews.com/articles/529-the-riches-of-white-space) on white spaces in the spectrum was published in the Canadian online news site, The Mark (http://themarknews.com).

[9/21] A paper (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~suman/pubs/centaur.pdf) co-authored by my student Nabeel Ahmed and myself (along with collaborators from the other UW in Madison and Intel Research) was awarded the Best Paper prize at ACM Mobicom 2009.

[9/16] Congratulations to Nabeel Ahmed (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~n3ahmed/Nabeel_Ahmeds_Home_Page/Welcome.html) for passing his PhD thesis defense. He will soon join Dina Katabi's group at MIT for a post-doc.

[9/10] My Senate testimony is mentioned in Time magazine (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1921373,00.html?iid=tsmodule) and The Hindu (http://beta.thehindu.com/business/article22572.ece).

[7/14] UW press release (http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=5091) on VLink (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/vlink). This showed up in the UW Daily Bulletin (http://www.bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/2009/jul/15we.html), IT World Canada (http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/52c306df-c2ab-4d2f-891a-a637041e10f6.html) and the Waterloo Region Record (http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/570968). Here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/09/vlink.pdf) is a presentation

2008

[12/27] I am quoted in this (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28digi.html?_r=1&ref=technology) article in the New York Times Sunday edition of December 28. Here are some calculations to justify the statements made there.

[11/27] I will be visiting India 1/3-1/24, lecturing at TECS week (http://www.tcs-trddc.com/TECS%2709/tecsweek_home.html) in Pune, and visiting Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Agra, and Mumbai.

[11/19] I will be co-chairing ACM CoNEXT 2009 (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2009/) with Ernst Biersack (http://www.eurecom.fr/~erbi/).

[11/6] Here (http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/en/dossiers/44920.shtml) is a link to an interview I did with Radio Canada International on KioskNet.

[9/16] Summer internship applicants: please use the online application system (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/intern09). I delete all internship applications emailed to me.

[9/8] Congratulations to Aaditeshwar Seth (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~a3seth/) on successfully defending his PhD thesis!

[9/4] I am teaching a graduate course called "Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking" Tu/Th 11:30-1:30 in MC 2036. Lecture notes, videos, and homework assignments are available from http://tinyurl.com/mathnet.

[8/18] We are thrilled to announce the (long-awaited) release of the KioskNet 2.0 software. More in the official announcement (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/Release_announcement)

[5/20] Congratulations to Matei Zaharia (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~matei/) for being selected as one of the Grand Finalists in the ACM Student Research Competition (http://www.acm.org/src/about.html). This is for work he did under my supervision on scheduling for Multi-NIC devices.

[5/16] I will be Editor-in-Chief of ACM SIGCOMM CCR starting September 5, 2008.

[5/14] Congratulations to Aaditeshwar Seth for being one of the 16 winners (of 3000 applicants) of a Knight Foundation Award (http://www.newschallenge.org/189/news-challenge-press-release.html)

[4/23] Here is a video (http://www.citris-uc.org/publications/presentations/video_and_slides_kiosknet_talk) of the talk I gave at UC Berkeley.

[3/26] It's all downhill from here: I have been promoted to Professor effective July 1.

[3/3] The local newspaper, the Record (http://www.therecord.com) ran an article on KioskNet that you can find here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/images/e/e0/Better_connections-KioskNet.pdf).

[3/1] I will be on vacation March 7-24. Expect delays in getting replies to email. I will not be checking voicemail until the 25th.

[2/25] My thanks to Cisco Research for their grant to research topics in adaptive opportunistic communication.

[2/14] Lock3 media made a video on KioskNet for a non-technical audience that you can find here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/video/).

2007

[12/14] KioskNet is featured as one of the case studies from Microsoft Research (http://research.microsoft.com/erp/digincl/casestudies/Waterloo.pdf) under their Digital Inclusion program. (PDF)

[12/12] We are making KioskNet hardware available for free to eligible partners under a Quick start program (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/Quick_Start_Program_here.).

[11/30] Details on the next KioskNet release, which will become available in 2008, can be found in this technical report (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/kiosknettechreport.pdf)

[11/27] I have updated my advice on Hints_on_doing_research. I gave a presentation based on these hints at CoNext 2007 that you can find here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/great.pdf).

[10/9] Rowena Luk (http://alumni.uwaterloo.ca/alumni/e-newsletter/2007/october/rowena_luk.html) has joined my research group, helping out over the next few months with integration testing and deployment.

[8/1] My research group's work on smartphones is mentioned in the August 1 issue of the New Scientist (http://tinyurl.com/28p75n).

[7/20] We've publicly released the KioskNet system! Here is the official announcement.

[7/16] I am the TPC co-chair for the Developing Regions track at WWW'08 and on the TPC for SIGCOMM'08. Consequently, I will not be able to accept any more TPC or reviewing duties for the next several months.

[6/12] Congratulations to Matei Zaharia, who came in first in the STOC student research competition (http://www.cs.williams.edu/src2007/) for his work on fast and optimal handset scheduling!

[6/7] Congratulations to Majid Ghaderi, who will be joining the Computer Science faculty at the University of Calgary (http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/).

[5/4] The past few weeks have been an exciting one for my research group (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/Main_Page). We have had papers accepted at SIGCOMM, MobiEval, AAAI Workshop on Recommender Systems, IEEE Software Defined Radio Workshop, SecureComm, and ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. We'll put them up on the publications page when the camera-ready copies are finalized.

[4/25] I will be attending WWW 2007 (http://www2007.org/), the PRESTO (http://cabernet.cs.princeton.edu/presto07/index.html) workshop and Mobisys 2007 (http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/). I might also be at Sigcomm 2007 (http://www.sigcomm.org/sigcomm2007/) and Mobicom this summer, though this seems to be far too much travel.

[4/22] My research group will be showing up in force at Mobisys 2007 (http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/). We have one paper in the main conference, and two talks in MobiEval (http://mesl.ucsd.edu/MobiEval/). I will also be organizing a panel (http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2007/panel.html) in the main conference and participating in the panel at the MobiOpp workshop.

[3/16] Here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/07/paper-reading.pdf) is a writeup on how to read a research paper.

[1/27] I will be attending IPTPS 2007 in Seattle Feb. 26/27, and the Mobisys PC meeting in Tucson on Feb. 28th.

[1/15] The internship application deadline has passed. We received 156 applications. We have accepted 12 interns from three countries. If you applied from us and haven't heard back, you have, unfortunately, not been accepted.

[1/1] I am teaching CS 456 Computer Networking (https://uwangel.uwaterloo.ca/uwangel/section/default.asp?id=MRG%2D061215%2D141055%2D%5Fadmin) this term, which is keeping me busy.

2006

[12/10] My students are raking in the awards: Matei Zaharia was declared runner-up in the 2007 Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Awards (http://www.cra.org/Activities/awards/undergrad/) and Nabeel Ahmed and David Hadaller were awarded the inaugural Cheriton Graduate Scholarships (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/grad/scholarships/Cheriton_scholarships). Congratulations!

[11/20] I have updated the 'Essays' link and added a new essay: Against Travel. I also added some advice on How to hold a meeting.

[10/26] I will be attending HotNets in Irvine Nov 29-30 and CoNext in Lisbon in the first week of December (Dec 4-7).

[6/21] Some thoughts on Reviewing the reviewers

[6/1] I will be traveling June 5-6 (Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute meeting in Ottawa), June 17-July 9 (visiting Intel Research, Cambridge), June 19-21 (Mobisys 2006), and July 16-20 (Microsoft Faculty Summit, Redmond). I will also be attending Mobisys in Uppsala, Sweden from June 20-22.

[5/26] Our deployment at Anandapuram village was successful! Here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/tetherless/index.php/KioskNet) is a pointer to the KioskNet project, with photographs of the deployment.

[4/7] A talk I gave at Google on "Low Cost Internet Access Using Mechanical Backhaul" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5560803111464678947) is now available on Google video.

[3/17] In a rush to do a paper review? Why don't you just reuse the review I got for our Mobisys submission? Its one-size-fits-all! See also Reviewing the reviewers.

[2/23] Our work on rural kiosks is one of the projects selected by Microsoft for funding under its Digital Inclusion program (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/feb06/02-23DigitalInclusionTabletPCRFPPR.mspx)

[2/22] Our summer intern selection is complete. If you one of the applicants and haven't heard from us yet, chances are pretty good that you have not been selected.

[2/16] Added PGP public key. *update* GPG has been hacked, so I am no longer using this.

[1/24] We have received over 125 applications for summer internships at UW and can only accept around 10. So, we are not accepting any more applications. We hope to have acceptance decisions in the next couple of weeks.

[1/23] Added a link to my photo gallery (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/gallery2/main.php) currently broken

[1/11] Here is a link (http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~n3ahmed/thesis.pdf) to Nabeel's thesis on Self-Managed Wireless LAN Deployment.

2005

[12/21] Updated the research vision and list of current projects.

[12/14] Added a link that points to recent changes to this site.

[12/10] I will be on a trip to India from Dec. 27th to Jan 13th. I will be visiting Intel Research, Infosys Research, and Microsoft Research in Bangalore as well as IIT Kanpur, and IIT Delhi. I will also attend COMSWARE (http://www.comsware.org/) in Delhi. Here is my itinerary

[11/15] My blog (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/blog/main.html) is now at a new location.

[11/10] Mark Handley and I are co-chairs of the newly chartered Internet Congestion Control Research Group (http://www.irtf.org/charter?gtype=rg&group=iccrg), under the auspices of the Internet Research Task Force. In a nutshell, the group will evaluate and recommend an alternative to TCP congestion control.

[10/19] Piki 1.0 (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/piki1.0/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is now ready to go. Thanks to Matei Zaharia for making the nav bar and CSS dynamically editable.

[9/15] Some thoughts on Recycling_a_billion_cell_phones

[9/12] I am teaching CS 456 (https://uwangel.uwaterloo.ca/uwangel/section/default.asp?id=MRG%2D050906%2D105433%2D%5Fadmin) (Computer Networking) this Fall.

[7/26] Aaditeshwar Seth and I wrote a paper on Practical Security for Disconnected Nodes (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/keshav/home/Papers/data/05/tca_security.pdf) that will appear in NPSEC 2005.