Jaiwant Mulik
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It is a melancholy of mine own , compounded
of many simples , extracted from many objects
and indeed the sundry contemplation of my
travels ,which , by often rumination , wraps
me in a most humorous sadness .
- Shakespeare
As you like it .
then and now

I am an Assistant Professor at the Computer and Information Sciences department of Delaware State University, Dover, DE. My research interests are in router-assist services, routing protocols and network reliability.

Research Teaching (Fall 2008)
  20-356-01 Computer Networking I 20-357-01 Computer Networking II 20-440-01 Mobile and Wireless Networks          
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Heard in class: Read in a signature:
Windows: "Where do you want to go today?"
Linux : "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
BSD : "Are you guys coming or what?"
I am sorry to have written such a long letter, I had no time to write a short one.
- Blaise Pascal There is sure, a pleasure in being mad, which only a madman knoweth.

I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot.
- Mark Twain, on the Dictionary

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
- Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of the Extraordinary Twins

"You believe in a God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order
in a world which objectively exists, and which I,
in a wildly speculative way, am trying to capture.
I firmly believe, but hope that someone will discover a more realistic way,
or rather a more tangible basis than it has been my lot to do.
Even the great initial success of the quantum theory
does not make me believe in the fundamental dice game,
although I am well aware that your younger colleagues
interpret this as a consequence of senility."
- Albert Einstein, Letter to Max Born.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
- Stephen Hawking

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
- Peter Steiner

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
- Albert Einstein

90% of everything is garbage.
- Jaiwant Mulik

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge ... At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long surpressed, finds utterance..."
- Jawaharlal Nehru, August 14, 1947

Where the mind is without fear and the head held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
- Rabindranath Tagore

To realise one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one. And when you want something , all the world conspires in helping you to achieve it.
- King of Salem (The Alchemist by Paul Coelho)

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

   -- William Ernest Henley

(Note : Inclusion of the above poem is motivated by its powerful words, especially the last two lines. A reference to this poem was found in news reports of a recent federal execution. The inclusion of this poem does not constitute an opinion about the execution.)

Walking is travel on the human scale
- John Gregory, How to See the World

"The only existing things are atoms and empty space. All else is mere opinion".
- Democritus, 370 B.C.

"Quantity is its own quality".
- Overheard.

Useful research phrases [original link]
Graham, Jr., C. D

She occupied herself with studying a map on the opposite wall because she knew she would have to change trains at some point. Tottenham Court Road must be that point, an interchange from the black line to the red. This train would take here there, was bearing her there rapidly now, and at the station she would follow the signs, for signs there must be, to the Central Line going westward.
-King Solomon's Carpet, Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".
-Henry M Wriston, 11th president of Brown University (1889-1978)

Crystal: What do you do ?
Me: I teach.
Crystal: What do you teach ?
Me: Computers.
Crystal: Computers !! You can't teach computers.
-Conversation with my 5 year old niece.

We must know, we shall know.
-David Hilbert

Ha!

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