MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Thursday, 21-Nov-96 22:01:20 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 4011 Last-Modified: Sunday, 06-Oct-96 20:28:59 GMT Mika Nyström

Mika Nyström

(alternate spellings:
Mika Nystrom
Mika Nystroem
for those of you who don't have a German or Scandinavian keyboard.)
E-mail: mika@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu
S-mail:
Computer Science 256-80
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
phone : (818) 395-6237
home phone : (818) 568-0501
FAX :
home address :
446 S. Catalina Apt. 202
Pasadena, CA 91106

There isn't exactly a whole lot here right now.

I'm a graduate student at Caltech.. but you probably already know that. There's a picture of me here.

I was born in Stockholm, Sweden on March 23, 1971, and I lived there most of my life (so far!) I graduated from high school in the International Baccalaureate program at Kungsholmen's Gymnasium in Stockholm in 1989. Subsequently, I spent a year at the University of Stockholm and a year in the Swedish Army, and I graduated from M.I.T. with bachelor's degrees in physics and electrical engineering in May, 1994. A dvi copy of my senior thesis is here.

I am in the Asynchronous VLSI Group here at Caltech, so my research interests are mainly in asynchronous VLSI, but I have done some internet stuff and spend way too much time with IRC. There is some server source code if you want it. Some of the things that are being contemplated for the upcoming redesign can be found in a mailing list archive.

Here are some things I have done recently:

  • "Project Y"-an attempt to bring together WWW and group-oriented discussions on the Internet. Together with Eve Schooler and Nathan Mates.
  • Caltech computer scientists develop vegetable computer.

     A breakthrough in environmentally conscious computing. Read more about vegetable computers here.
  • A paper I wrote for a class (EE185a) about Contrast Enhancement Lithography used in VLSI fabrication.
  • Last year I was a TA for CS138, taught by Mani Chandy.
  • Earlier this year, I spent an inordinate amount of time with the CS department's new Pentium lab computers running NetBSD. Here's a report about this work.
  • This academic year (1996-97) I am helping to teach the department's legendary digital VLSI design laboratory CS/EE181.

    When I'm not playing around with a computer, I'm usually trying to keep my car running.

    If you haven't already checked out Alta Vista, press here now for a WWW service that's guaranteed to blow you away.