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You have reached Stephen P. Tarzia's web space. I am a Ph.D. student at Northwestern University in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. My current work is in the Empathic Systems Project, but my interests also include optimization algorithms, networking, operating systems, electronics design automation, high-performance computing, internet telephony, embedded systems, acoustics, and music technology. This site provides a peek into my personal and professional life.

news

2010/06/08

ICAC'10 conference talk [paper] [slides]

2010/03/08

Our paper Display Power Management Policies in Practice will be presented at ICAC'10 in June.

2010/03/05

Check out the Sonar Power Manager video at Tinkernut blog or on Youtube

2009/10/28

Sonar Power Manager version 0.8 released.

2009/10/15

Sonar Power Manager featured on slashdot.org tech news site.

2009/10/02

UbiComp'09 conference talk [paper] [slides]

2009/10/01

USENIX'09 Annual Technical Conference summaries published. I wrote several of these summaries.

2009/09/24

First public release of Sonar Power Manager, version 0.7.

2009/06/17

Presented Sonar poster at USENIX Annual Technical Conference in San Diego.

2009/04/05

Added 16-core workstation page.

2009/04/05

Updated remotecmd code for newer kernels.