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MS Thesis available in RIT Library and DML
My thesis is now available in a bounded hard-copy at the RIT library on the 3rd floor (Call No. Q341 .K58 2008) and online through the RIT Digital Media Library.
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Video CAPTCHAs at Center for Imaging Science
On January 28th, 2009, my thesis advisor (Richard Zanibbi) presented a talk on Video CAPTCHAs at the RIT Center for Imaging Science. An abstract of the talk can be download here. A video of his talk...
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CS Department’s “5 Minutes with Kurt”
You knew you were headed for a career in Computer Science when… I witnessed the thrill and the excitement of the dot com boom in the late 90’s. What is your favorite class and why? Theory of Computer...
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Data structure for weighted sampling
I was asked the following question: Design a data structure that supports 2 operations: insert(element, weight) sample() When you insert an element into the data structure, you specify a weight. This...
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My Erdős Number is 5
For fun, I calculated my Erdős number tonight (using the AMS Collaboration Distance Calculator). Your Erdős number represents the number of hops between you and the famous Hungarian mathematician Paul...
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Paper Accepted at SOUPS ‘09
Richard Zanibbi and I will be presenting Balancing Usability and Security in a Video CAPTCHA at SOUPS ‘09 this summer. SOUPS is conveniently being held on Google’s Mountain View campus, so I’ll be out...
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Balancing Usability and Security in a Video CAPTCHA
This week (July 15th - July 17th), Richard Zanibbi and I are attending SOUPS ‘09 in Mountain View, CA. It’s a smaller conference that’s gotten great reviews and has had some excellent CAPTCHA-related...
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RIT news article on Video CAPTCHAs
The RIT Athenaeum has just published a short article describing Video CAPTCHAs. You can find it in print around the RIT campus and online here: http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=47112
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CS4HS Workshop
After a nice relaxing weekend down on the Jersey shore, I flew up to Rochester, NY on Sunday, June 27th. My 6pm flight out of JFK quickly turned into a 9pm departure due to storms in upstate NY. After...
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Testing Rebecca Black’s Claims
I was unsure about some of the bold claims that Rebecca Black made in her latest hit video, so I wrote some unit tests for it. It turns out she is telling the truth! public void testRebeccaIsntLying()...
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