Remember those li'l camera-shaped thingies sold near tourist spots that show an arbitrary sequence of glimpses into something if you keep pulling a lever? Remember lyrics to Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire"? okay, you get the idea. Here's me, through keywords.

 

*Sitaram Iyer, ssiyer@cs.rice.edu, http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/
*research areas: Operating systems (disk and memory), peer-to-peer computing
*research: physical memory management, disk scheduling, resource management, FreeBSD, ScalaServer project, Pastry project
*advisor: Peter Druschel
*CS Rice Univ, CSE IIT Bombay, Parle college, Airport high school
*making webpages: minstrels, iitbcs98, ricejunta
*listenables: classic rock, Indian classical, Indian oldies
*conferences been to: USITS99, SOSP99, SOSP01
*courses taken: comp 425, 520, 527, 422, 360, 311, elec 537
*courses labbied: comp 210, 421, 413
*great cartoon strips: Calvin & Hobbes, Orson's farm, B.C., Wizard of Id, Dilbert, Garfield, userfriendly
*unix goodies: FreeBSD, Linux, perl, scheme, mutt, vim, lynx, wmaker
*windows goodies: Netcaptor, Weatherbug, Sequoiaview, Popup Killer, Cygwin
 

Updated Sitaram Iyer, Mar 20, 2002