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Welcome to my personal Web page! My name is Nikitas Liogkas and I am currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Computer Science department of the University of California, Los Angeles. Feel free to browse around! You can click on the links at the top to jump to the different sections of this site. You can also check out my friends on the left (at least the ones with Web pages), or have a look at some other pages that I find interesting. I hope that some of the material I put up here will prove useful to you, especially that in the Software section. Please let me know of any comments or suggestions to improve this page.
NEWS
August 2007: I got an award from the Chorafas Foundation.
July 4, 2007: Windows Forest, a Japanese online software directory, writes an article on the Autocomplete Manager. You can read the original here (in Japanese), while a rough translation, courtesy of Google, is here.
July 3, 2007: The photos from the annual Computer Science faculty vs. students basketball game are up! We obviously won :)
June 19, 2007: Put up a simple tutorial for building Firefox extensions based on my experience with the talk at the UCLA Linux Users Group event.
June 12, 2007: The Autocomplete Manager breaks the 50,000 download barrier on the official Firefox add-ons website.
June 8, 2007: Autocomplete Manager version 2.0 is released with startup time improvements, a couple of new options, and the mandatory bug fixes.
June 1, 2007: My fianceé successfully defended her Ph.D. thesis. I am now officially engaged to a doctor. Yay! :)
May 29, 2007: Gave a talk and tutorial on building Firefox extensions at a UCLA Linux Users Group event.
May 16, 2007: Softpedia granted the Autocomplete Manager the "100% FREE" award. Read all about it here.
May 5, 2007: Released version 1.6 of the Autocomplete Manager extension including major performance improvements.
March 21, 2007: After popular demand, I made public my presentation on hidden Computer Science concepts in CandyLand. Here are the presentation slides. You have been warned :)
March 3, 2007: Released version 1.5 of the Autocomplete Manager extension, exactly 1 year after the initial release. Talking about coincidences...
February 5, 2007: Our paper to SIGMETRICS 2007 got accepted.
December 12, 2006: Our paper to Wiley's Concurrency and Computation journal got accepted.
August 28, 2006: The NSDI 2006 reports have been published in the ;login: magazine; my summary of the keynote address appears on pages 77-78.
June 2, 2006: Gave an invited talk on our work on BitTorrent's robustness at the Introduction to Network Research seminar at UCI's Computer Science department. The slides are available here.
May 11, 2006: Gave an invited talk on BitTorrent's core mechanisms at the Advanced Internet Research graduate class at UCLA's Computer Science department. The slides are available here.
May 8, 2006: Presented a poster at NSDI 2006.
May 5, 2006: Presented a poster at UCLA's 2006 Engineering Research Review.
April 27, 2006: I proposed to the love of my life on a trip to Greece. I'm now officially engaged :D
April 13, 2006: Gave a talk on BitTorrent's core mechanisms at UCLA's peer-to-peer systems graduate class. The slides are available here.
April 7, 2006: Received the Usenix Student Grant to attend NSDI 2006.
March 20, 2006: Put up PGP Freeware 8.0.2 in the Software section. This should make it easier (than it was for me) for other people to find it online.
March 17, 2006: Released version 1.1 of the Autocomplete Manager extension.
March 3, 2006: Released version 1.0 of the Autocomplete Manager extension for Mozilla Firefox. Yay!
February 28, 2006: Gave the talk on our paper at IPTPS 2006; the slides are available here.
February 21, 2006: Accepted an offer for a summer internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond. I will be working with Sharad Agarwal and Venkat Padmanabhan at the Networking Research Group.
August 19, 2005: The USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2005 reports have been published in the ;login: magazine; my summaries appear on pages 75-77.