I am a PhD student in computer science at the University of California Berkeley. My advisor is Prof. James Demmel, and I'm interested in numerical linear algebra -- specifically, in performance tuning that accounts for numerical accuracy. I was a teaching assistant last fall for a section of CS 194, which will be a new course on parallel programming for undergraduates.
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage