R.J. Honicky

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I am currently a PhD student of Computer Science at UC Berkeley working on the TIER Project. My dissertation work focuses on building a societal scale, distributed scientific instrument by integrating evironmental sensors (such as carbon monoxide) into location aware cell phones. Please see the N-SMARTS Project Homepage for more information. My co-advisors are Eric Brewer and .John Canny. Richard Newton was my advisor until he died of pancreatic cancer on Jan 2nd, 2007.

My Masters thesis at UC Santa Cruz was on data distribution algorithms for object-based storage systems. I am also interested in scalable metadata management for very large object based systems.

I have been involved in building wide area networks using a modified version of the Wifi protocols in Ghana, India and Guinea Bissau.

I worked at Tensilica during the summer of 2006 studying the market for ultra-low power baseband processors.

I worked in Bangalore during the summer of 2005 at Microsoft Research India working on localization techniques using GSM signal strength, focusing on rural areas in developing countries.

In 2004, I did a small study in Ghana on the effectivness of a Distributed Searchable Web-cache in reducing bandwidth usage and allow completely disconnected operation in Internet cafes and libraries in developing countries.

I have also been involved in the design and development of a CIFS version of the SPEC file-system benchmark (SFS) while working at Network Appliance. We have a paper coming up in CMG.

Department of Computer Science
205 Cory Hall #1772
University of California
Berkeley, CA
94720-1776

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545S Cory Hall

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