RIP "finger": the Unix command "finger" shows if a user is logged in, or else displays their "plan" file, with contact info. It used to be connected to the web, but that turns out to be dangerous.

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Be Ye Not Lost Among Precepts of Order... - The Book of Uterus 1;5 Some excerpts from an interview with Malaclypse the Younger by THE GREATER METROPOLITAN YORBA LINDA ...

Thread operations include thread creation, termination, synchronization (joins,blocking), scheduling, data management and process interaction. A thread does not maintain a list of created threads, nor ...

William Cohen is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Machine Learning Department. He also holds a 20%-time appointment as a Principal Scientist at Google, where he worked full-time ...

We introduce the heat method for solving the single- or multiple-source shortest path problem on both flat and curved domains. A key insight is that distance computation can be split into two stages: ...

This webpage is a benchmark data set for keystroke dynamics. It is a supplement to the paper "Comparing Anomaly-Detection Algorithms for Keystroke Dynamics," by Kevin Killourhy and Roy Maxion, ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

My research goals are to advance the science of how people interact and learn with adaptive, AI-based learning technologies, and to advance the design and engineering of these technologies.

I'm a professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. I am also affiliated with the Robotics Institute. I'm interested in multi-agent planning, reinforcement learning, ...

Computer systems design is full of conundrums: Given a choice between a single machine with speed s, or n machines each with speed s/n, which should we choose? If both the arrival rate and service ...

I am an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, with joint appointments in the Machine Learning and Computer Science departments. My group's research is centered around the science of ...