Emil Sit

Bringing in 2006

Contact:

Work:

Emil Sit
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
32 Vassar St Rm 32-G982
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

PGP Keys:

RSA and DSA

Education:

• MIT. SB (1999) in 18 (Math). SB (1999) and M.Eng (2000) in 6-3 (Computer Science). ESG 1995--96.
• Bronx High School of Science, 1995.

Projects and Research

• Building and enhancing Chord and DHash (Project IRIS) in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems research group.
• Characterizing spam traffic.
• The Applied Security Reading Group.
• Web security with cookies.
• Content delivery networks at Cisco (via SightPath).
• Measuring performance of the Domain Name System.
• The Secure File System.
• The Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research program.
• Early Linux-Athena development, documentation, testing and support as a member of the Student Information Processing Board.
• Athena Consulting (OLC).
• Adding certificate support to lynx.
• Professor Lynn Stein's Rethinking CS101 project (while she was still at MIT).

Teaching

• 6.033 Computer Systems Engineering, Spring 2000.
• 6.001 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Spring 2002 (in ESG).
• 6.097 Operating Systems Engineering, Fall 2002 (now 6.828).
• 6.824 Distributed Computer Systems, Spring 2006.

Interests

• Security: Cipher Knight (build your own cryptosystem), OpenPGP clients (PGP, GPG).
• Privacy: Electronic Privacy resources, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
• Networks: Internet Technical Resources, IETF and IRTF, DNS, caching.
• News and blogs: Arts and Letters Daily, SciTechDaily, CurrentCites, Linux Weekly News, saving the environment.
• Photography, Music, Go, Radio.
• Previous quotes.