Referenced Paper: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1090000/1080199/p116-jun.pdf?key1=1080199&key2=1552844021&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=18506295&CFTOKEN=73653288
BitTorrent is a protocol for downloading large files, and is often a faster alternative to regular client-server downloading. Essentially, BitTorrent is able to increase download speeds by utilizing a network of people downloading the same file at the same time. The network of people, in BitTorrent terminology, is referred to as […]

At http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet-infrastructure.htm, howstuffworks explains how the internet is physically connected, and we can relate the internet to some important ideas of graph theory. Say we have a computer in a corporate network (A) that wants to connect to a computer (B) across the country, on some other network. If we start with a […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/technology/26tube.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/pakistan-blamed-for-worldwide-youtube-break/?ex=1204606800&en=1911c530be444f91&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Although I was not personally aware of it at the time, apparently YouTube was made unavailable to most of the world this past Sunday for a period of about 2 hours because of an alleged accident made by the Pakistani state-operated Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The two above links will direct you a New York […]

As I write this blog post, I’m engaging some opponents in fierce online gameplay in Settlers of Catan.  As far as I can remember, I’ve played online multiplayer games since I was in 4th grade-starting out games against computer A.I “bots”, and then working my way up to people I’ve never met before online toward 7th […]

Why it’s rational to vote
This October 2004 post on a Columbia University blog deals with the seemingly simple question of whether voting in a presidential election is a rational act. They present a utility function U=p*B - C, where p is the proabbility that your vote will change the outcome of the election, […]

The government’s role in regulating the internet has recently been a controversial issue recently. Many internet service providers are attempting to increase profits by charging content providers like Google and Yahoo! for broadcasting of their content to users. Content providers have supported Congressional proposals for a government-enacted ban on such charges while internet service providers […]

http://www.news.com/8301-13772_3-9871834-52.html
“Social network invites can be a plague”
Posted by Daniel Terdiman
Web-based social networks is probably one of the fastest growing industries in the contemporary age. It effectively brings friends and families a lot closer through the internet. We are no strangers to Facebook, MySpace, and many other social network sites. And we are definitely familiar […]

I was interested in the ultimatum game discussed in class, so I did a literature search through “psych info” to find out more about the psychology behind this game. I game across a 2005 article by Heinz-Deiter Meyer in the journal of economic psychology entitled “Norms and self-interest in ultimatum bargaining: The prince’s prudence”(link […]

Recently, we have witnessed a decline in the value of US dollar in the global markets. The US dollar is at a multi year low against a lot of currencies across the world. People are led to believe that a drop in the value of dollar will only affect the US markets and other countries […]

Right upper corner or left lower corner? I sit here tapping my foot anxiously, trying to decide which square to choose on Facebook’s campusfood.com Feeding Friendzy. And there it is: that stupid little Zelda elf with the evil laugh. Game Over. I am sure many others have faced the extreme annoyance of trying to win […]