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PECARI: Pig Engineers Care About R Improvements
Thoughts on implementing simple join order optimizations within Pig at DAWN '08.

The Pig Latin Dataflow Language: A Brief Overview
Highlights the Pig Latin language and an approach to peforming the computations it describes.

The Linux Audit Visualization Tool
An overview of the Qt-based I/O visualizer I developed last Fall.

Performing Fault-tolerant, Scalable Data Collection and Analysis
A 20,000 ft overview of my recent work on a parallel statistics generation backend for OVIS. This was given at the Summer 2008 Student Symposium at Sandia/CA.

The Netflix Challenge: Parallel Collaborative Filtering
Outlines the simple approach I tackled the Netflix Challenge with in CS 387 at Missouri S&T.

Human Detection and Tracking Using a Wireless Sensor Network
The ambitious senior design project I championed at Missouri S&T.