Anand Venkataraman

PhD (1997, CS).

How can you contact me?

As of Sep 28, 2006, after a fun-filled and fulfilling 6 years here, I no longer work at SRI. You can browse my my personal web page where I'll try to keep information about me current.

What have I published?

What have I taught in the past?

In a previous life, I taught this very well received Machine Learning graduate class and the "much enjoyed" Foundations of CS class.

Links to some useful online journals

Some useful resources and links

Download my HMM mini-toolkit and a Tech Report.
Download my Artificial Neural Network (ANN) mini-toolkit and an exercise sheet.
Download my Perl implementation of a maximum likelihood vocabulary selection technique.
C++ implementation (using STL) of my word segmentation algorithm (See Comp. Ling. 27(3), pp. 352-372, 2001).
The SGI/STL Tutorial
Latex Tutorials found by Google.
The SRI Language Modeling Toolkit.
Sound language modeling advice from a fortune cookie (from lunch on Nov 21, 2001).

Disclaimer

All content following this represent my own personal views and SRI International is in no way responsible for them, nor does it endorse any of them.

Some snaps

Here are some cool photographs, most of which were taken with either a Minolta X700 or an Olympus Mju zoom.

Some of my light non-fiction

Euclid and Nautilus 30031, - A painting, (1999).
The Clever Widows of Fornicalia and the Stobon Oracle, (1999).
The Troublesome Toilet Seat: Up or down? (1999).
Scrabble, idealism and careers, (1995).
Crowded Street, (1982).
Two-way street, (1995).
Is learning Unix worth the time?, (1998). In High Technology Careers, 15(2w), p.26.

Some of my light fiction

Some of my original (and some not-so-original) humor

These were all published in the usenet newsgroup rec.humor.funny (moderated by Brad Templeton) during its formative days back in the early '90s. Of course, nobody reads newsgroups anymore.

Mr Ed. (original, Sep 1989)
On OS (original, Dec 1991)
Horseshoes and Neils Bohr (Mar 1992)
An example of Shavian wit (Aug 1992)

Some of my mellifluous :-) Googlewhacks

Simplex somnambulator, Morphophonemic mellifluence, Bisexual bric-a-bracs...What do these words have in common?
Click here to find out.

Some sites I visit

Please take a few minute to browse...

Amnesty International

Amnesty International