Nick Jamil’s blog

Algorithm

• Tomasulo register renaming
• AKS prime number test
• radix sort
• Linux 2.6 process scheduling algorithm

Astronomical Entity

• Kepler’s Supernova
• Pleiades cluster

Composer

• Ludwig van Beethoven

Composition

• Beethoven: Symphony 9 movement 2 (listen)
• Vivaldi: Autumn movement 3 (listen)

Computer Science Theorem

• Cook-Levin theorem

Computer Science Topic

• polytime reducibility
• quantum computation
• sorting
• compiler optimizations
• database performance optimization
• context free grammars
• runtime complexity analysis
• n-tier architectures

Data Structure

• networks
• hash tables
• Judy arrays
• disjoint sets
• bitmaps

Historical Period

• Renaissance
• Arabia (c. 7th-10th cent.)

Language

• Arabic
• German (although I can’t speak it)

Music

(Removed)

Opera

• I’m not an opera fan at all, but I’m kind of a sucker for La Donna e Mobile (listen)

Physics Topic

• the Standard Model

Poem

• To My Wife with a Copy of My Poems (Wilde)
• My Voice (Wilde)
• In the Forest (Wilde)
• From Spring Day to Winter (Wilde) except the last stanza
• The True Knowledge (Wilde)
• Roses and Rue (Wilde) the last stanza
• Her Voice (Wilde)
• Sailing to Byzantium (Yeats)
• The Raven (Poe)
• Nobody Knows this Little Rose (Dickinson)

Poet

• Oscar Wilde

Prophetic Companion

• Umar b. Khattäb

Qur’anic Verse

• 2:186

University Class

• computational complexity and computability