Tuesday, April 20, 1999

Dateline Stanford: Junk mail

Greetings once again from sunny Stanford, California! Spring is upon us here and I am wearing shorts once again.

My project for one of my classes this quarter is to write a program to automatically identify spam (also known as junk mail). So please forward any unsolicited commercial email you receive to me. Really. I'm serious. The more training data I have the better.

Here's a cool picture from a while back that I scanned in for my web page:


Oh, and if you haven't seen _The Matrix_ yet, it is awesome. If you see only one movie before Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, this should be it. The super slo-mo "bullet time" effects are incredible.