I'm a fifth-year graduate student in Computer Science, hoping to get a PhD one of these years.

I am a member of Fil Menczer's NaN group, currently studying the topology of the Web, particularly the dynamics of human attention as reflected thereon.

Every now and then I get bored and post something in my blog.

I have another site, treespider.net, on which I maintain a wiki documenting some code I've written.

I also have a resume and a cv. These are updated semi-occasionally.

Email: jpr (at) cs (dot) indiana (dot) edu
AIM: jacob ratkiewicz
Office: I2 (919 E 10th) room 310

• J. Ratkiewicz, F. Menczer, "Text Snippets from the DomGraph." In the SIGIR 2008 Workshop on Focused Retrieval, Singapore, 2008.
• M. Jakobsson, S. Myers, "Phishing and Countermeasures" (Wiley, 2006). Chapters "Content Injection Tutorial" and "Attacking eBay Users with Queries."
• M. Jakobsson, J. Ratkiewicz (2006): Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A Study of (ROT13) rOnl Query Features. WWW '06. [pdf]

• Webgraph++: A translation into C++ of the Webgraph library (for Java).
  
  
• Human Subjects Commision forms in LaTeX: I got tired of using Word to edit the Human Subjects Commission forms, so I'm converting them to LaTeX as I use them. Here are the files I have so far:
  
  
  • hsc_formatting.tex: This file contains common style and command definitions and is needed by everything else.
  • exempt_information_sheet.tex: Sample information sheet to be provided along with an application for an exempt study.
  • exempt_form.tex: Application form for exempt study
  • conflict_of_interest.tex: Conflict of interest statement
  
  
• slashtmp - Command line utility, written in Perl, to upload things to Slashtmp. Requires a few other libraries that can be easily installed from CPAN (WWW::Mechanize, Term::ReadKey, Crypt::SSLeay, Mime::Base64). Download here.

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