Archive for the 'Academia' Category

2007 UCSB Capture the Flag Results

Friday, December 7th, 2007

My school’s computer security team, RPISEC, reached 13th place in the International Capture the Flag security game hosted by University of California, Santa Barbara. We scored 17,570 points compared to the winners’ 89,554, enough to rank us second amongst the U.S. teams.

The game was based on set of vulnerable web services hosted by the Music [...]

Pursuer, Evader

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

I won a contest in my Computer Science II course. I’ll admit it though: I cheated.

For a homework assignment, we were given graphs where vertices represented cities and edges were railroads between them. An evader would move between the cities, trying to avoid capture by one or several pursuers; if the evader and a pursuer [...]

CogWorks Laboratory

Friday, September 14th, 2007

I am now working at the CogWorks Laboratory research facility in the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer.

The CogWorks Laboratory conducts basic and applied research to study the complex interplay of cognition, perception, and action in routine interactive behavior. To further our understanding of integrated cognitive systems we combine methods from experimental [...]