Technology and Human Societies

Bye bye Chicago, Hello Palo Alto

2008-01-21T00:36:00.000-06:00

As of fall 2007, I have graduted with a PhD degree from UIC. I am now in Palo Alto, working as a member of Search Analytics team at Amazon's Product Search Division A9.COM.

TRIUMF

2007-03-10T03:11:00.000-06:00

TRIUMF is the Trusted Middleware for Privacy Preserving Collaborations. I have been working on it ever since I started my PhD. Recently, It was funded by an NSF grant. For complete details please visit TRIUMF website.

My Spring 2007 Schedule

2007-01-16T20:02:00.000-06:00

I will be working as Research Assistant with Motorola Labs' Knowledge Management group on very exciting technologies for better mobile entertainment experience.Moreover, after many ups and a few downs, Chicago Bears are in the NFC title game finally. I have enjoyed every bit of this Bears season. Hopefully, they can win the next couple of games to make it a timeless memory. Go Bears :)

Time's Person of the Year, Web 2.0 and What's Next?

2006-12-21T15:49:00.000-06:00

"It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes."[Time

Dr. Abdus Salam: Beyond Physics

2006-12-20T00:34:00.000-06:00

Dr. Abdul Salam was a great scientist. He was a firm believer that "scientific thought is the common heritage of mankind". I feel pity for bigots who never realized what he stood for and what were they missing by not learning from him.Read complete article here.

Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science

2006-06-23T12:35:00.001-05:00

The link below ranks CS conferences based on the number of citations. A good tool to judge the strength of the conference.http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html

My Summer Schedule- 2006

2006-05-25T12:46:00.000-05:00

I will be working as a summer Intern in Pervasive Platforms and Architectures Lab at Motorola's Research division.

Privacy Issues with Web2.0

2006-05-18T15:58:00.000-05:00

The concept of 'Software as a Service' is the driving force behind the so-called Web2.0. This emerging paradigm will lead to lots of user data being gathered at web servers of the service provider. Google's upcoming GDrive is one such service that is in the offing. Imagine users storing their personal data at Google servers with Google's assurance that their privacy will be preserved. But what

Warner Bros. realise the potential of P2P Infrastructure

2006-05-09T23:21:00.000-05:00

WSJ reports that Warner Bros. will be using BitTorrent Inc.'s peer-to-peer technology to distribute its movies to legal subscribers. P2P technology has been wrongly percieved as an enabler of illegal distribution of copyrighted data. I have been strongly advocating the use of P2P Infrastructure for scalable, secure and authenticated dissemination of multimedia content. Our research work in

Sun's McNealy Steps Down

2006-04-24T23:50:00.000-05:00

SUN CEO Steps Down After 22 Years at Helm - Forbes.com.

Bring Space Down To Earth

2006-02-01T14:16:00.000-06:00

UIC's EVL being featured in Forbes' Most Connected Campuses Series. Read it here

101 dumbest moments in business: Tech

2006-01-31T16:14:00.000-06:00

I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. This Business 2.0's list contains some of the dumbest moments in Tech industry during the year 2005. Enjoy reading it here.Waseem

Using Flock to Blog

2005-10-27T16:13:00.000-05:00

Just came across this nice tool bundled with Flock, looks like I will be blogging with it from now on :)

Natural Disasters- Katrina and Kashmir Earth Quake

2005-10-20T14:45:00.000-05:00

First it was Katrina and now Earth Quake in Kashmir. There are estimated 70,000 people dead in Kashmir and NWFP of Pakistan and the number is expected to rise. People there desperately need tents, blankets and warm clothing. In a tragedy of this scale, we all have to play our roles to bring comfort and relief to the victims of the tragedy. Tell them that we do care, please donate generously.

My Summer Schedule

2005-06-06T17:18:00.000-05:00

I will be working as a Summer Intern at Sun Micosystems Research Labs at Burlington. I will also have a Weblog Space at Sun Labs.

Why we need Secure High Performance Data Transportation over Internet

2005-06-06T16:10:00.000-05:00

CitiBank's case is the newest in a series of complaints regarding mishandling of private customer data. CitiBank, apparently, uses UPS to securely transfer Magnetic Tapes cotaining archives of sensitive customer data from one location to another. Such physical transfer of the data can run into serious problems in future as well. One wonders why are not we still able to transfer such data over

Web Services: The Next Big Thing? Goldman Thinks So.

2005-05-24T22:31:00.000-05:00

Web Services have emerged as true answer to the interoperability, scalability and openness problems in Large Scale Distributed Computing. They have the potential to provide IT industry with ample substance to gain the confidence of big guns in stock market. Realizing this potential, Goldman has updated its outlook of Software Industry from 'neuteral

Future of IT Research

2005-05-24T21:42:00.000-05:00

E Lawzoska and Dave Patterson write in their editorial in Science Magazine "Where will the next generation of groundbreaking innovations in IT arise? Where will the Turing Awardees 30 years hence reside? Given current trends, the answers to both questions will likely be,"not in theUnited States.""The full editorial accessible here paints a gloomy picture

2005-03-12T21:12:00.000-06:00

Utility, commodity: IT to follow electricity? Sun's COO and president Jonathan Schwartz writes about Utility Computing where he compares Computing with electricity and finds interesting similarities between their evolution processes.Utility, commodity: IT to follow electricity? | Perspectives | CNET News.com

2005-02-10T03:22:00.000-06:00

The Rise & Fall Of Carly FiorinaHP's Iron Woman, its CEO, Carly Fioina has been fired from her post. Following article gives a good account of her rise and fall from a position where she was once considered as the most powerful Woman in American Business. CBS News The Rise & Fall Of Carly Fiorina February 10, 2005�02:00:02

2005-01-24T00:52:00.000-06:00

The New York Times > Technology > New Group Will Promote Grid Computing for Business: "New Group Will Promote Grid Computing for Business By STEVE LOHR "

2004-12-09T00:31:00.000-06:00

FT.com / Home UK - Lenovo buys IBM's PC unit for $1.75bn: "Lenovo buys IBM's PC unit for $1.75bn"

Price per CPU/Hour: Sun's COO speaks about his views on Utility Computing

2004-09-27T03:05:00.000-05:00

The power of Grid Computing is enabling Tech-Companies to provide multitude of IT services with flexible price models. There has been a lot of research on how Data/Computing virtualization (Data/Compute Sources seamlessly knittted together across administrative boudaries ) can be enabled through a unifying "Grid Services Arcitecture". Take a look at how some of the big companies are

Issues of Security/Privacy in Distributed Bioinformatics

2004-09-10T16:04:00.000-05:00

Biological data sets are constantly evolving with a tremendous pace at geographically distributed places under different administrators. The need for a combined data analysis over distributed data sets is always there mainly to speedup research in drug discovery, analysis and verification which in turn reduces the time to market the eventual drug. Now the problem is that the biological data is so

2004-09-01T00:01:00.000-05:00

Call for Papers:: FIT04 http://multimedia.ece.uic.edu/FIT04/ Important Dates Paper submissions due: September 22nd, 2004 Notification of acceptance: October 15th, 2004 Camera Ready papers due: November 15th, 2004 Days of the workshop:December 20 - 21, 2004 The workshop is scheduled to hold in Islamabad. The idea is to enable collaboration between US and Pakistani researchers. The main