Academic Tree circa 2003

June 26, 2008

Pull requests accepted! https://github.com/patricklam/plam.new-webpage Henry M. Foley (physics) +--Joseph Frederick Traub (1959, from Columbia) [Columbia] (quantum) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~traub/ +--Hsiang Tsung Kung (1973, from CMU) [Harvard] (networks) http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/ +--Baudet, Gerard M. (78, from CMU) +--Cohn, Robert J. (92, from CMU)* +--Fisher, Allan L. (84, from CMU) +--Foster, Michael J. (84, from CMU) +--Hsu, Feng-hsiung (89, from CMU) +--Lam, Monica S. (87, from CMU) [Stanford] +--Michael Wolf, (August 1992, from Stanford) Thesis: "Improving Parallelism and Locality in Nested Loops"

Couch

January 9, 2008

“That’s a nice couch in your office, Patrick.” When I moved into Edgerton House I realized that trying to live without furniture soon becomes deeply unsatisfactory: the floor just isn’t that great to sit on. To avoid a repeat of that experience, I quickly purchased furniture for my new place. I found ads for a coffee table set and a couch on craigslist, which were actually posted by the same person.

How to bike to a workshop

May 5, 2004

Epic bike trip in Massachusetts.

Concrete Atria are not Atria!

March 21, 2004

I was happy to leave my old office, NE43-632, at 200 Technology Square, and move to 32-G730 in the Stata Center. My two complaints about Tech Square were: (1) lack of sunlight; and (2) white noise. I always found the white noise to be annoying, but the lack of sunlight was not always a problem. When I had first arrived at MIT in 2000, we did have natural sunlight in my office.