Bill Cheswick's Home Page

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"The peace and order of society is more important than even the relief of the miserable."   — Adam Smith

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My blog, an experimental confabulation of Apple's iWeb software and my hardened web server.

Interests

I am interested in security that's too hard to ensure, passwords that are too hard to remember, graphs that are too hard to visualize, and VCRs that are too hard to program.

Projects

  • My personal theme song, (about 17:20 into the video) by Steve Poltz, writer of the amazing You Were Meant For Me.
  • Electric commuting bike.
  • Rimonabant - the first in a new class of anti-obesity drugs.
  • Alternatives to simple password authentication.
  • Science Museum Exhibits:
    Silly face transformed by the exhibit The new Digital Darkroom exhibit is almost ready for the grand re-opening of the Liberty Science Center this summer. The designers at LSC have helped me upgrade the original Digital Darkroom to real-time successive transforms.

    Also, What Does Sound Look Like?, How Long Does it Take to Win the Lottery?, an upgrade for the Chattanooga Children's Discovery Museum, and a color blindness simulator.

  • MythTV HDTV finally works for me,
  • Hacking eyewear for aging folks,
  • Search engine first responders,
  • Emergency power for the heater during a power outage,
  • a tiny packet telescope,
  • and many more over the years.
  • Output

  • OK, I have a blog now.
  • Curriculum vitae, bio, and short bio.
  • Papers (bibtex)
  • Talks, the old ones are Powerpoint slides, the newer are PDFs of Keynote presentations.
  • I've started a blog, well, actually a diary of various random thoughts.
  • Our tube. Family time lapse and animation experiments.
  • How to Trisect an Angle With a Chainsaw, by Arjen Lenstra.
  • Firewalls and Internet Security; Repelling the Wily Hacker. It is more fun to have written than to write.
  • Cheap research: various project for which I am inviting specific feedback.
  • Bug - something I dreamt up one night (short).
  • Software.
  • Bibliography, in bibtex form.
  • I am a modern-day tinkerer, a.k.a. hacker.
  • Internet Mapping

    small internet map Hal Burch and I ran the Internet mapping project while at Bell Labs and Lumeta Corp. Click on the thumbnail for more information, data, and a gallery of some interesting visualizations of the Internet.

    These Internet maps have appeared in dozens of books, magazines, posters, and papers worldwide. Our technology remains at Lumeta, so you should contact them if you wish to use the images. I am always willing to discuss them with interested parties.

    Second Edition of the Firewalls book

    cover of the second edition of the firewalls book The Second Edition is now available in several languages. Details available at
    http://www.wilyhacker.com/

    Misc

  • Brushes with greatness
  • Childhood heros
  • Links I want to keep track of.

  • William R. Cheswick
    Lead Member of Technical Staff, AT&T; Research
    ches at cheswick.com
    ches at research.att.com (seems like old times!)
    +1 908 766 3831 phone
    +1 908 766 3592 fax
    ticket stub for United flight 93 on 10 September 2001

    lot's of small images of locks This lock is your assurance of security.

    Brian Clapper is a boofhead.

    Excelsior, you fathead