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My introduction in the Piazza forum for Graduate Algorithms (GA)

Posted on May 17, 2021 by Matt Chung

At the beginning of every semester, each student is encouraged to post on the forum (i.e. Piazza), introducing themselves and answering the following questions:...

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Distributed Computing/Graduate School

Distributed Computing @ OMSCS over – what a ride!

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Matt Chung

Last semester, I decided to enroll in the brand spanking new Georgia Tech’s Distributed Computing course offered for the first time (as part of OMSCS) thi...

Distributed Computing/Graduate School

Distributed Computing CS7210 Distributed Computing – A course review

Posted on May 13, 2021 by Matt Chung

Distributed Computing was offered in the OMSCS program for the first time this past semester (i.e. Spring 2021) and when the course opened up for registration, ...

Computer Science/Graduate School/Parenting

Distributed Computing – Goodbye and thanks for the wonderful semester

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Matt Chung

I just finished Spring 2021 at Georgia Tech OMSCS and published a farewell note on the classroom’s forum (i.e. Piazza platform) and would like to share th...

Graduate School/Rant

Speaking up for others

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Matt Chung

Ever since I was little boy, if any of my friends were bullied or picked on, and I noticed they couldn’t defend themselves, I would speak up on their beha...

Distributed Computing/Graduate School

What are good models and what models are good?

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Matt Chung

Schneider, F. B. (1993). What good are models and what models are good. Distributed Systems, 2, 17–26. Paper Summary In his seminal paper on models (as they app...

Distributed Computing/Graduate School

Distributed Computing – Lesson 1 Summary

Posted on January 15, 2021 by Matt Chung

Summary Distributed systems are everywhere: social media, internet of things, single server systems — all part of larger, distributed systems. But how do you de...

Graduate School/Personal Development/Thinking out loud

Failure: I want more of it.

Posted on December 3, 2020 by Matt Chung

Students in the Georgia Tech program collaborate with one another — and collaborate with professors and teacher assistants — through a platform called Piazza. B...

Graduate School/Home Organization/Parenting/Weekly Reviews/Writing

Weekly Review – Week ending in 2020/11/01

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Matt Chung

No Halloween this year I used to love Halloween growing up, not so much the dressing up part but the knocking on doors and getting handed fist fulls of candy. N...

Graduate School

Five tips for surviving (or thriving) in the OMSCS program as a computer science graduate student

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Matt Chung

Overview In this post, I’m sharing five tips that I’ve picked up over the last 2 years in the program. At the time of this writing, I’m wrappi...

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