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 Office: 419B, H.R.B.B., TAMU
 Ph: +1 979.862.4535
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Requesting feedback on the tenure system
Sunday, 25 November 2007 11:23

Hello Everyone,

I will be hosting the show 'Biased Transmission' on KEOS 89.1FM on November 28th  6-7PM. Biased Tranmission is a talk show whose mission to start a discussions on topics that are otherwise seldom discussed in the community here in Bryan/College Station.

The discussion on November 28th will be on the Academic Tenure System. This discussion will be primarliy focussed on Tenure system as a concept, its goal, its effectiveness, its misuse, etc. But the crux of the discussion will be to explore the nature of the system and interrogate it to see if it indeed delivers what it promises, or it is simply a broken system in need of repair/replacement.

The panelists include Dr. Karan Watson (Regents Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Dean of Faculties & Associate Provost), and Dr. Michael Greenwald (Professor of English and Theater, the Director of the International Studies Degree Program, and an active member of the faculty senate). So rest assured the discussion is expected to be of high quality.

As a part of this discussion I would like to invite comments/experience/criticism on the tenure system. I plan on using the issues and concerns voiced here to ask difficult questions to Dr. Watson and Dr. Greenwald.

To facilitate your candor, you can go ahead and submit your questions/concerns/feedback on the tenure system anonymously, if you so choose. So please feel free to provide me with difficult questions to ask our panelists on Biased Transmission. 

 

 

 
Dug up an old article in 'The battalion'
Monday, 22 October 2007 08:01

Found an old article that featured your truely as I was digging through the archives of 'The Battalion ': TAMU's college paper. Here's a link to the article:

Striving for change: International grad student fights for equality, pushes diversity

 
 
Wait-free Dining Under Eventual Weak Exclusion
Sunday, 21 October 2007 08:45

This paper has been accepted at the 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, ICDCN 2008. This Work was done in collaboration with Dr. Scott Pike and Yantao Song.

Click here for the DOI.

Abstract: We present a wait-free solution to the generalized dining philosophers problem under eventual weak exclusion in environments subject to crash faults. Wait-free dining guarantees that every correct hungry process eventually eats, regardless of process crashes. Eventual weak exclusion (<>WX) actually allows scheduling mistakes, whereby mutual exclusion may be violated finitely-many times; for each run, however, there must exist a convergence point after which live neighbors never eat simultaneously.Wait-free dining under <>WX is particularly useful for synchronization tasks where eventual safety is sufficient for correctness (e.g., duty-cycle scheduling, self-stabilizing daemons, and contention managers). Unfortunately, wait-free dining is unsolvable in asynchronous systems. As such, we characterize sufficient conditions for solvability under partial synchrony by presenting a wait-free dining algorithm for <>WX using a local refinement of the eventually perfect failure detector <>P1.

 The complete paper is here .

 
Play at Stagecenter - Cabin Fever
Sunday, 07 October 2007 17:36

Stagecenter community theater in Bryan downtown is playing 'Cabin Fever - A Texas Tagicomedy'. I am playing the role of Micheal Cody in the play.

Directed by Deborah English
Written by Mark Dunn
Show Dates: Oct 4,5,6
11,12,13
18,19,20

Time: 7:30 PM
Curtain Call: 7:15 PM
Cast:

Aubery - Charles Pitman
Karen - Amy Ressler
Pidge - Nancy Woods
Georgine - Amber Maler
Cesca - Ashley Bertling
Aunt Tammy - Deborah English
Micheal - Srikanth Sastry


Tickets $10 Adults
$ 8 Students
$ 6 on Thursdays
 
 
My shows on Touchstone Radio, now available for live listening
Thursday, 09 August 2007 16:15

All my shows on Touchstone Radio are now available for live listening here. Go to the `Volunteer Work' menu and click on 'Touchstone Radio'.

You can also subscribe to the podcasting rss feed. 
 
Travelogue on visit to Kudremukh
Thursday, 28 June 2007 18:11

In December 2005, I visited Kudremukh (in India), the town I had spent most of my childhood, and all of my schooling years in. It was an extermely nostalgic experience, especially because the town is shuting down, and my visit may have been my last ever to Kudremukh.

I wrote a relatively long travelogue about my visit to Kudremukh. The travelogue is in six parts, and can be accessed via the Leisure Activities -> Travelouges  section in the left side menu. Click here to get to the first part.

 
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