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01/27/06

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Here resides my past and current research endeavors.

  • Network Computing Laboratory, Computer Science Dept, Columbia University, New York City
    • Zap: a process virtualization technology that seamlessly decouples general applications from the physical hardware system and the software operating system.  Zap provides fast checkpoint/restart times to enable application migration, fault tolerance, load balancing and a slew of other benefits. 
       
  • Programming System Laboratory, Computer Science Dept, Columbia University, New York City
    • Worklets: a mobile agent system used as effectors in a larger autonomic computing infrastructure. Designed and implemented.
    • AI2TV: a system for distributed video synchronization that allows geographically dispersed participants to collaboratively view a video synchronously
    • Checkpoint Manager: coming soon to a theatre near you...
       
  • While @ La Univerisidad  de Nuevo Mexico
    • While at the Brain and Computation lab, I was basically a slave to my professors.  I helped design, develop, and maintain software tools for MEG (magnetoencephalography) data analysis.  I conducted analyses on several different data sets using blind source separation and other signal processing tools.
    • Flamenco is a passion.  I wish I had more time to study flamenco's complex meaning. While at UNM, I produced a class with Eva Encinias Sandoval about the communication layers involved in flamenco.  We discussed the implications of flamenco as a vehicle for the Roma to express themselves
      - culturally, as a response to continual oppression, and
      - musically, through the use of voice, percussion, and melodic elements from within a flamenco piece.
       
  • Oregon State University
    • While at OSU, I volunteered in the Taylor Lab where I had the pleasure of observing homosexual male Drosophila melanogaster form lines to conduct an amusing mating ritual.  I was also given the opportunity to do microscopic dissections of the fruit fly larva in order to extract their central nervous system.  Those buzzing friends I brought home after work weren't only an account of my personal hygiene... In addition, I did immunohistochemical analysis of nervous system issues in wild-type and fruitless mutant Drosophila melanogaster along with an evaluation of Drosophila neuronal GFP (green fluorescent protein) expression patterns from dissatisfaction promoter-Gal4 fusion constructs.

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