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name: wu, william
school: stanford university
major: electrical engineering
standing: Ph.D. student
hobbies: juggling, nunchaku, chinese, recreational math, web design, art, reading, tutoring
education: Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S. Electrical Engineering and M.S. Mathematics, Stanford University
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley

i am an electrical engineering PhD student at stanford university. my research interests include sampling theory and compressed sensing, combinatorics, wireless communications, and coding theory. this is my personal site. for my professional site, please click here.

most of this site is devoted to some of my interests, particularly riddles and mathematical puzzles. this topic consumes most of the visitor bandwidth, and almost all of the highly educational forum content. there's also some stuff on psychology, fractals, and other neat things. if you're into math and/or puzzles though, i think you'll enjoy the forum, and i invite you to join. it's an archive of discussions for thousands of puzzles at all levels of difficulty. new problems arise almost every hour, and we have members spanning all ages, countries, and professions. having the chance to build such a community is one of the nicest things I've ever taken part of.

btw, if you're wondering why this site is on a berkeley server, my undergraduate studies in EECS were done at berkeley. it's a big hassle to move everything due to the forum.


suggestions? typos? feedback is welcome. e-mail wwu at ocf.berkeley.edu or post to the guestbook


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professional site (research page)

1337 (script kiddie culture)
allexperts (graphical answers to math problems)
articles (some toy articles)
astronomy (images w/ descriptions)
chinese (chinese language etymology)
complex analysis (needs to be trashed)
coursework (most technical classes i've taken)
downloads (serving emulators, music, movies, etc)
emulation (play old-school video games for free)
forums + guestbook (self-explanatory)
fractals (math and gallery)
graphics (includes fractal art)
hehe (funny rap lyrics)
links (useful sites)
psychology (practical psychology)
quotes (quotes by friends, teachers, profs)
read or die (books)
riddles (tech-interview riddles)
screenshots (old school video games)
stanford EE quals (advice for quals)
truth (history)
winamp (mp3s)

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  1. I sent you an e-mail, but I got an error message saying your e-mail address doesn't exist.
    • You have to remove the "NO_SPAM_" prefix that I appended to all e-mail links on this site, to deter spam robots. If you were too dense to figure this out, I probably don't want to correspond with you anyways :)

  2. Are you some kind of Wu-Tang Clan freak?
    • Only like the old-school stuff.

  3. Regarding the 100 prisoners problem, can we [ rotate the bulb | make markings on the wall | break the bulb into shards | tally visitations by leaving droppings in the corner | ... ]?
    • No. (Those are all real suggestions that were sent to me.)

  4. Where is this slashdot article about your riddles site?
  5. Are these questions really frequently asked?
    • No.


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