Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:53:54 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Bob Carter -- Home Page

Bob Carter

That's me on the right


Computer Science Department, Boston University
111 Cummington Street
MCS-215, (617) 353-4758
carter@cs.bu.edu

Currently toiling away at the Computer Science Department, College of Liberal Arts, Boston University, and getting a degree ??? Long ago I went to RPI in Troy, NY


Breaking News

My niece, Amelia,Imagine a cute baby picture was born on Monday morning, July 15. More info on her home page.


Teaching

Spring 1996: cs210: Computer Systems

Previously: Taught CS 113 and EK 121. Have been a teaching fellow for CS/EK 420, CS 512, and CS 551.


Research

Current

Since the Fall of 1995 I have been a member of the OCEANS research group. Prof. Crovella and I have been studying tools and techniques for the measurement of available bandwidth in packet-switched networks. Our publications in this area can be found here

Previous

During 1993 and 1994, I worked on Genetic Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization with Kihong Park . Here are our related papers:

  • On the effectiveness of genetic search in combinatorial optimization (BU-CS-TR 94-010) (868k) Presented at 10th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Genetic Algorithms and Optimization Track, February 1995.
  • Scalability problems of genetic search. In IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 1994.
  • How good are genetic algorithms at finding large cliques (BU-CS-TR 93-015) (211k)


  • Hobbies? (yea, right)

    Lately, I've been spending some time on lake Winnipesaukee, in Meredith, NH. Check out the latest temperature readings in the lake.

    In my copious free time I like to Juggle and ride my bike.

    In the summer of 1994, I got really ambitious and did my first loaded bicycle tour. I went on Bikecentennial's Glacier-Waterton Loop in beautiful downtown Montana. We climbed Logan Pass, went on to Waterton Park in Canada and back to Whitefish. For picture click here

    Want to learn more about backpacking ? Here's some handy reference items.


    If you're depressed... take a look at some humor files.


    Some links...

  • Finance:

  • Sam, take a look at this.