Welcome to my home[page].
Work stuff...
I am an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. An (old) brief biographical sketch is available in ps,or pdf for job-related purposes only.Note to students: I do not submit recommendations using applyyourself.com because I do not agree with their Terms Of Service. If your school uses this service, you will need to request a paper version for any of my recommendations.
Courses taught
- (Fall '08, Spring '07) EC327: Introduction to Software Engineering
- (Fall '08, '05) EK131/132: Hacking: networks, hardware and software
- (Fall '04) SC727: Advanced Coding Theory BU
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- (Spring '06,'03,'02) SC330: Applied Algorithms for Engineers
- (Spring '01) SC700: Modern Information Protocols
- (Fall '06,'03,'02,'01,'00) SC504: Advanced Data Structures
- (Spring 2000) CS 173: Discrete Mathematical Structures
- (Summers '98,'99) CPS1: Intro. to the Theoretical Foundations of
Computer Science
- CTY through Johns Hopkins University.
Affiliations
- Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2008) - publications chair
- Laboratory of Networking and Information Systems - codirector
- Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) - founding member
- Sensor Network Consortium publica
- Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cyber Security (RISCS)
Selected publications
- Mobile Networks and Applications: Springer's web.
- IEEE Broadnets 2007: pdf.
- IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, September 2008: pdf.
- IPSN 2008: pdf.
- ITA 2008: pdf.
- ITA 2008: pdf.
- IEEE INFOCOM 2007: ps or pdf
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3283: pp 175, 2004: ps or pdf.
- IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing 2:1, January-March 2003: in ps or pdf.
- ACM SIGCOMM Comp. Comm. Review 32:3, July 2002, p. 14 (poster): pdf.
- IEEE Network: Scalability in Comm.Networks, July, 2002: ps or pdf.
- IEEE INFOCOM 2002: ps or pdf.
- Technical report BU ECE--2001-03.
- Large-Scale Networks workshop, March 2001: pdf.
- IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, 45:6: ps or pdf (378K),
- ISIT 1998, p. 207.
- Ph.D. thesis from the UIUC, CS dpeartment: html, ps or pdf.
Programs et al.
- EC330: (solutions to homework problems I have assigned)
- Tic Tac Toe: try to beat the computer on a 10x10 gridI
- Sudoku Solver: solves generalized Sudoku puzzles (as specified by the user).
- Ban Solanum Lycopersicum:
- a petition to ban this common restaurant product from the US food supply, as it can lead to hallucinations, coma, circulatory collapse, respiratory failure, and even death.
- Reconciliation:
- source code for our practical reconciliation engine. See also related pages for our memopad and string synchronizers, and our developing GenSync project.
- Calculate code parameters (v2):
- a web interface for calculating various parameters of error-correcting codes and computing lexicographic extensions. also available as an i686 or Sparc executables.
- Car parking:
- the winning implementations for a car parking problem I assigned in my SC504 class.
- 8D tilings:
- Search for full-rank 8D tilings ( i686 executible is also available).
- Bipartite graph GUI:
- a Java command-based graphical user interface for drawing bipartite graphs
- J-machine simulator:
- SGI executable code for a three-dimensional simulator of J-machine packet routing (screenshot)
- Code visualizer:
- openGL-based 3D visualizer for algebraic codes (SGI executable -- screenshot)
About me...
- My original family consists of:
- Lazar Trachtenberg, my father, professor of ECE, Drexel University
- Tania Trachtenberg, my mother, director of finance at Will's Eye Hospital
- Dalia, my sister #1, graduated Harvard, PhD in physical chemistry at Columbia, and now with Exxon research.
- Danna, my sister #2, graduated Barnard, and now studing Molecular and Cell Biology at Brandeis.
- Me.
- My less-"academic" interests include (but are not limited to): Jewish law and Israel, Soccer, Chess, (random) Hacking,...
- I developed and used to maintain the Sci Tech homepage.
Non-work stuff...
- Download a database of kosher restaurants in the US for your GPS device.
- Read Reengineering the Jewish Nucleus, a version of my entry to Brandeis's Jewish Communal Innovation competition.
- Say NO to academic boycotts!
- Free Ron Arad, Gilad Shalit!!
- Check out this great art work - "Essence of the pater-filii modality" (not available for sale).
- Try out the Monty Hall problem in Java.
- Check out one of my twikis.
Formalities...
- What's with the strange background?
If you look carefully, you will see that the background is actually
a modified version of the picture on the left.
This picture represents a two-dimensional projection of the A set of
a ten-dimensional full-rank tiling of binary space; interestingly enough, there
are no such tilings in any smaller dimension (see the
SIDMA article, or my earlier
work), which makes ten strangely important for this field.
- Feel free to e-mail me ...


