Courses I am taking this semester: (Spring 2002)

 

Statistical Language Learning

Online Algorithms

Artificial Neural Networks

Medical Informatics

Embedded Systems - Protection, Vulnerabilities and Protection Mechanisms

Independant Research

 

Courses I took the last semester: (Fall 2001)

 

Cryptography and Network Security

Database Systems

Algorithms

Natural Language Processing

 

 

Cryptography text book

Douglas R. Stinson, Cryptography (Theory and Practice), CRC Press 1995, ISBN: 0-8493-8521-0

 

Some projects that I did in Fall 2001

 

A Secure Distributed Fault Tolerant File System

 

Database systems: A weather pattern analysis and forecasting tool using past history as well as the climatic conditions of surrounding areas. It is implemented for the East Coast of the US only as there is too much data that is to be processed. Though, it can be up-scaled for larger geographic areas.

 

NLP:

Designing Context Free Grammars

Language Modeling

Parsing and Semantics

Finite-State Programming using Xerox's XFST.

Tagging with a Hidden Markov Model

 

 

 

SOME USEFUL LINKS:

Link to the NLP course page is here.

Link to the Cryptography course page is here.

Unix man pages

A lot of crypto related code can be found here

A great website for network security.

A tutorial on the usage of vi.

Hopkins Outdoors club.

Feedback and info about courses taught in previous years.

Code for projects in various languages.

A great site for comparing prices of products online.

A very good collection of quotes

An excellent tutorial for Oracle, PL/SQL and interfacing it with HTML.