Scott Kirkpatrick

Research Interests:

• Design of information appliances
• Connections between complexity and statistical physics
• Distributed computing on networks
• How will "born digital" material be accessed and managed in the libraries of the future?

CV and Publications list in .pdf or ps format.

• Determining Computational Complexity from Characteristic Phase Transitions, R. Monasson, R. Zecchina, S. Kirkpatrick, B. Selman, and L. Troyansky, Nature 400, 133 (1999).
• 2+p-SAT: Relation of Typical-Case Complexity to the Nature of the Phase Transition, Random Structures and Algorithms, 15, 414-435 (1999).
• Percolation in Dense Storage Arrays, S. Kirkpatrick, W. Wilcke, R. Garner and H. Huels, presented at the Messina Symposium, "Horizons in Complex Systems," Dec 2001, and Physica A314 220-229 (2002).
• E-Play, Claudia V. Goldman and Scott Kirkpatrick, to appear in "Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia", Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002 (published by IEEE).
• Rough Times Ahead Scott Kirkpatrick, Perspective in Science 299 668-9 (2003).
• "How Smart Does an Agent Need to Be," Scott Kirkpatrick and Johannes J. Schneider, to appear in Int'l Journal of Physics (2004).
• "Passwords you Can't Recall, but will Never Forget," Daphna Weinshall and Scott Kirkpatrick, a Late-Breaking Development paper at CHI2004, Vienna, Austria (April 2004).
• Comparing Beliefs, Surveys, and Random Walks" Erik Aurell, Uri Gordon, and Scott Kirkpatrick (Cond-Mat 0406217 9 June 2004) to appear in NIPS 2005
  
• Selfish vs. Unselfish Optimization of Network Creation, Johannes J. Schneider and S. Kirkpatrick, J. Stat. Mech., P08007, 2005
• "Room User Interface(RUI) Design for Laser Based Interaction," Amnon Dekel and Scott Kirkpatrick, submitted to CHI 2005.
  
• The Friendly Classroom, Amnon Dekel, Eyal Bagon, and Scott Kirkpatrick, submitted to Pervasive 2005.
  
• "Medusa -- New Model of Internet Topology Using k-shell Decomposition," Shai Carmi, Shlomo Havlin, Scott Kirkpatrick, Yuval Shavitt, and Eran Shir. cond-mat/0601240. Shortened and submitted, see cond-mat/0607080. Appeared in PNAS Vol 104, No. 27, 11150-11154 July 3, 2007.
  
• "Future Internet: Fundamentals and Measurement," Thrasyvoulous Spyropoulous, Serge Fdida, and Scott Kirkpatrick, to appear in CCR. Report of the COST/Arcadia Future Internet Workshop at CoNEXT, Lisbon, Portugal, Dec 4, 2006.
  
• "Everlab -- A production platform for Research in Network Experimentation and Computation," Elliot Jaffe, Danny Bickson, and Scott Kirkpatrick, to appear in USENIX 2007.
  
• "Architecture of the Internet Archive," Elliot Jaffe and Scott Kirkpatrick, to appear in SYSTOR 2009.
  
• "Social Networks and Spin Glasses," S. Kirkpatrick, A. Kulakovsky, M. Cebrian and A. Pentland, Phil Mag, 92, pp. 362-377, Jan 2012.
  
• "Spin Glasses and Frustration," S. Kirkpatrick, chapter in "PWA 90: A Lifetime of Emergence", World Scientific (2015).
• What is LTE Actually used For?", F. Malandrino, S. Kirkpatrick, and D. Bickson, submitted Jan 2016.
• "Once the Internet can Measure Itself," S. Kirkpatrick, to appear in Phil Trans. Roy. Soc A374 (2016).
• "How Close to the Edge? Delay/utilization Tradeoffs in MEC", Francesco Malandrino, Scott Kirkpatrick, and Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, CAM Workshop at CoNEXT 2016, Irvine, Ca.

• History of Computer Science, a personal view, S. Kirkpatrick (published version in Italian).

• "Stochastic Optimization," Johannes J. Schneider and Scott Kirkpatrick, a Springer Monograph in Physics, ISBN 3540345590

• Summary talk from Wireless and Mobile Computing Systems symposium, Monterey CA, Dec 2000.
• K-Core Analysis of Random Networks A. Shalit, S. Kirkpatrick and S. Solomon, poster presented at "Aspects of Complexity and Its Applications," Rome Sept. 2002.
• Report on DARPA project in distributed stochastic optimization. Nashville, TN June 27, 2002, with updates For movies of the application (in simulation) you can view the biggest example anyone has solved to date, or the whole set of movies on which our analysis is based (roughly 2MB each).
• "Information Technology in an expanding universe" -- talk given at conference on Complexity and its Applications, Rome September 2002.
• "From Scale-Free Networks to Avogadro-Scale Engineering," -- talk given to a general audience at Complexity Symposium, London School of Economics, March 25, 2004.
• "Comparing Beliefs, Surveys, and Random Walks," talk given at optimization algorithms workshop, Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, June 17, 2004.
• "Jellyfish and other interesting Creatures of the Internet,", talk given at Bar Ilan conference on Complex Systems, 14 April, 2005. Material added for presentation at ICTP (Trieste) workshop, May 25, 2005, at ICSI (Berkeley, CA) August 10, 2005, and at TAU colloquium, November 6, 2005.
• Estimating Power Consumption on my Olympus E-1 short talk in Embedded Computing seminar course.
• Some thoughts on message-passing and Sudoku.
• Smags, Firgels, and Queels -- a discussion of new product introduction, as exemplified in the Leica M8.
• The Internet's Physical Topology," lecture at the Windberg Summer School, Germany, Oct 2007.
• European Internet Traffic and Analysis," Final Report, Brussels, May 2015.

• The Cube Management System: A study in Tangible User Interfaces for Systems Administration," Aviva Dayan (2008)
• Scalable Storage Systems, Elliot Jaffe (2010)
• Amazon on Earth, Amnon Dekel (2011)
• Optimization of Big Data Systems, Keren Ouaknine (2017)

Courses:

• Spring 2001, 2002, Fall 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006. Project Course: Post-PC Embedded Intelligence This course is offered in parallel with a similar course at the Bezalel School of Design.
• Fall 2005 Seminar: Embedded Computing
• 2018-2021 Final thesis projects in the CSE program

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