When we visited the Black Diamond Mines regional reserve the ranger told us a bit about Mount Diablo. Mount Diablo is a pretty young mountain and when it rose all the geological features of the area changed. In the Black Diamond Mines you can observe that the different geological layers …
read morePoint Reyes National Seashore
After some time in the national parks we wanted to explore the national seashore as well. Point Reyes is pretty close to us and the reviews sound as if the park could be fun! The drive from Albany to Point Reyes was around 1hr in early morning traffic, not too …
read moreBlack Diamond Mines Regional Reserve
Our first hike from our new home location was in Black Diamond Mines Regional Reserve. We planned the hike one day before, bought enough food (two bagels for me, one bagel for Lumi, fruits, and some sweets) and around 3l of fluids. The drive took less than an hour from …
read moreAn expats start as a security postdoc at UC Berkeley
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This post covers our first two weeks in Berkeley, California and includes our struggles to find reasonable housing, a car, pitfalls with Visa requirements, how to get a driving license, and generally how to start a new life in the …
Hard data on YouPorn
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As you might have heard (or not) YouPorn Chat had a huge information leak on February 21st 2012. One of their servers served a directory with all registration log files from the last couple of years (http://chat.youporn.com/tmp). Apparently this chat server is not serviced by …
28c3 - 28th Chaos Communication Congress & Berlin Sides or a tough week in Berlin
Last week we celebrated that special time of the year again. For me it was the 8th time that we went to the Chaos Communication Congress and the 3rd time that I had a talk. This year we also had tokens for the BerlinSides, a side conference with only technical …
read moreAcademic careers or how to become a professor.
Summary: Have a vision. Stay foolish.
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On May 11th 2011 the VMI (the organization of the scientific staff at the CS department at ETH Zurich where I'm currently the president) organized an informational event on how to start and how to structure your academic career. If you are pursuing …
40 hours in Washington D.C.
I was on a tight schedule as I only had around 30 hours in Washington D.C. to see all the mayor sights. First of all I stayed in the Downtown Washington D.C. Hostel, which was great because I could just walk to Union Station and all the major …
read moreConference remarks: ISPASS 2011
As you might know I've been presenting at the IEEE ISPASS'11 conference in Austin, Texas. The conference went from April 10th to April 12th. If you are interested you can read my ramblings about the talks below.
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(David Brooks & Rajeev Balasubramonian)
75+ Registrations 64 submissions in total, 4 …
VEE conference ramblings