I'm a fourth-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. I am also a member of the Phishing Research group. I do occasional consulting work for RavenWhite.

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: Eigenmann 916

• M. Jakobsson, S. Myers, "Phishing and Countermeasures" (Wiley, 2006). Chapters "Content Injection Tutorial" and "Attacking eBay Users with Queries."
• M. Jakobsson, F. Menczer, and J. Ratkiewicz. "Click-Fraud and Countermeasures." Morgan and Stanley, to appear 2007 (work in progress).
• M. Jakobsson, J. Ratkiewicz (2006): Designing Ethical Phishing Experiments: A Study of (ROT13) rOnl Query Features. WWW '06. [pdf]

Undergrad stuff:

• D. Vrajitoru, J. Ratkiewicz (2004): Evolutionary Sentence Combination for Chatterbots. The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2004), Innsbruck, Austria, February 16-18, 2004, ACTA Press, 287-292.

• J. Ratkiewicz, J. Wolfer.(2002) Application of Self-Organizing Maps to Texture Visualization and Analysis. Indiana University South Bend Undergraduate Research Journal, 2002.

• 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.

• Larisse Voufo Wow, she finally made a web page.
• The Ironsuitcase -- My brother's blog. Hasn't been updated in over a year.
• Ben "Frog" Markines. He never updates this, either.
• Jeremy "Couch Star " Engle
• Mira "Miralova" Stoilova - The Oracle. She's gone on to a better place.
• Sid "Pumpkin" Stamm
• Peter "Peter Man" Gottschling
• Todd "Toddy" Holloway
• Alex "Animal" Breuer. Doesn't have a web page, so I'm just linking to a picture.
• Matt "Unstoppable" Kane
• If you want to find out how much someone makes, you can do that here.
• IU Computer Science FAQ -- Everything you wanted to know and don't have to ask.
• The CS grad student webboard -- Check early, check often
• givealink.org -- Donate your bookmarks to science!
• Bloomington LJ Community -- stuff is posted here sometimes.