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Yaron Minsky's Home Page;Yaron Minsky;Graduate Student;yminsky@cs.cornell.edu;Department of Computer;Science;4139 Upson Hall;Ithaca, NY 14850;Cornell University;Phone: (607) 255-4934 Fax: 4428;109 Comstock Place Apt #3;Syracuse NY 13210;(315) 423-9907;I am a CS graduate student, and I'm currently focusing on;fault-tolerant distributed computing. In particular, I am working on the;Tacoma project, which is an attempt to build operating system support for;fault-tolerant agent-based computing.;Flapdragon is no longer new (it's been over a year now) and I no longer live;there, but it's still a great veggie coop (which I crash at often nowadays...);Here's the slightly outof date;;webpage. It does, however, have a timely notice that Flapdragon has an;opening for starting 12/15! If you need a place to live, I highly recommend;it.; I'm a big Go fan, though I don't get to play much. Go is an ancient;Chinese game with extremly;simple rules but very complicated and satisfying strategy.;If you'd like to learn more, here's a great intro page.;Also, if you want to play Go on the internet (yes, I know it's not;as good as a game with a real live person in front of you, but it's better than;nothing.) and you're on a Unix machine, take a look at cgoban. It's the nicest go;board program I've seen. And, it makes it trivially easy to play on the;net.; I am newly married, and my new wife, Lisa, and I, are living in Syracuse,;where she is going to medical school (at the;SUNY Health Science Center,;uniquely qualified as the only medical school within an hour and twenty minutes;of Cornell) and loving every bit of it.;;Some favorite;poems:;La;Figlia Che Piange;The;Idea of Order at Key West;Advice;for Good Love;Resume;Some interesting;links:; The Movie Critic; I was very impressed by this. It's a good example how fairly simple AI; technology can be used to great effect. This site has an AI engine that takes; in your ratings of movies, and by comparing that to the ratings of others,; comes up with recommendations. I found it almost alarmingly good (in contrast; to Firefly, which tries to do the same thing, but fails miserably.);;; Yahoo's Yellow Pages.; You put in your home address, and they give you directions to the seven; closest bakeries. It's not perfect, but it's better than the other web; yellow pages I've tried (i.e., bigbook and bigyellow.) I don't know why they; don't advertise it more.;The; New York Times. I don't know why the do it, but it's a great read and; it's free. Plus, it saves all that paper....(note, if it takes you too; much time to download, try the text-only; page);Slate; Magazine. As much as I hate to admit it,Microsoft does something right; every now and then. Thoughtful and well executed. But what do you expect; with Michael Kinsley running it.;Red; Hat Linux ...A great company which makes Linux easy to install and; maintain.;Ithaca; movie listings;Amazon.com; books a very solid discount virtual bookstore. Let's hope they don't; run the local booksellers out of town.;My; brother .;The following is my PGP public key.;-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----;Version: 2.6.3;Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface;mQBtAzGjOHoAAAEDALFh77LG9JMDG+xO+3VHtNCl9PaiF7Bwd0COtM79h2zIsMf0;gcE7kuIe0GNP9q2q8SWfZbjWxdtyF5t7cGilgJqVeA+rb39yLf+ZWqujcioCZOec;4v+Zx/EYKbNYxtnc8QAFEbQoWWFyb24gTS4gTWluc2t5IDx5bWluc2t5QGNzLmNv;cm5lbGwuZWR1PokAdQMFEDGjOHoYKbNYxtnc8QEBm3sC/3G3Kga7r7sok5R9iN8n;OAZIHjas/uB+gCjs1Aj2j8XNoertfeyLbVHpn0jTSweAbOGzkxAiXP9Nhv/wUmjg;ZsnvI0SpWk7rvZG2d4rojsWmC9+e8IgSq0sbE+22BsBP7w==;=jcwz;-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----;