Hi,
Welcome to my personal home page.
My name is Siavosh Benabbas. I'm a junior at Computer Engineering Dept. of Sharif University of Technology . I didn't put much time working on this page, as you see. I 'm having a difficult semester with 16 units, leaving me no time to rest, don't believe, take a look, and as this semester is much worse than the last, this page will remain under heavy destruction for a little more time.

According to Jung my type is INFP meaning: Introverted 67%, Intuitive 22%, Feeling 11% & Perceiving 56%.You can see a description for INFP here or here.
take your own test

Interests:

• General Computer Science
  1. Computability Theory
  2. Complexity Theory
• Algorithms & Data Structures
  1. Graph Algorithms
  2. Matching Theory
  3. Maximum Flow Problems
  4. Scheduling Problems
  5. Linear Programming
  6. Computational Geometry
  7. Probabilistic Algorithms
  8. Approximate Algorithms
• Programming in General
  1. in C++, the most powerful programming language; currently most comfortably with g++ and Emacs
  2. in Java, when I need a headache or something!
  3. in pascal, use to do so when the world was young.
  4. in PHP, if I have enough time to debug a half-page code, through the most relevant error messages!

Some Programming Contests:

• International Olympiad in Informatics, IOI
• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
• ACM Vallaolid in Spain
• ACM Timus in Russia
• USACO Contest Gateway
• The International Obfuscated C Code Contest, IOCCC   nice programming style!!
• IPSC is a very nice internet problem solving contest

and Some Places for Practice:

• ACM Vallaolid in Spain - more than a thousand judgable problems
• ACM Timus in Russia - about two hundred problems, but nicer ones !
• USACO Training Gateway - at first it might seem childish !

My Friends:

• Mohammad Hossein Bateni visit
• Hamed Ahmadinejad visit
• Mohammad Moharrami
• Hassan Zakeri
• Babak Bostan
• and ...
• Morteza Alamgir visit
• Ashkan Nikseresht visit
• Payam Valadkhan visit
• Mir Omid Haji MirSadeghi

Cool Stuff:

• My Photo Album It contains many of my photos, and also my friends', when we were in Korea or Slovakia, for IOI and CEOI. Click here
• Introduction to Game Tree by Hamed Ahmadinejad, this is a very good and comprehensive introduction to Game Tree Click here
• As a lot of people asked me, I put a link to the infamous Nibbles, by Mohammad TooSSi, a favorite of Behdad Esfahbod not available now!
• This is Yakko's World, if you want to hear the name of all nations of the world in a nice musical animation. not available now!

Useful Links & My Favorites:

• My Favorite Books
  • The Art of Computer Programming Collection, by Donald E. Knuth
  • Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser
  • Combinatorial Optimization : Theory and Algorithms by Bernhard Korte and Jens Vygen
  • The C++ Programming Language, by Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Sherlock Holmes Collection, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Lord of the Rings Collection, by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Harry Potter Series, by J. K. Rowling
• ACM
  • portal.acm.org   Click here
  • ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
  • Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA)
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)
  • Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
  • ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
  • Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry
  • ACM SIGCSE Bulletin (SIGCSE)
  • Proceedings of ACM conference on Proving assertions about programs TOC
  • ACM Annual Computer Science Conference (CSC)
  • ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (AICPS)
• GNU GPL is the most reasonable license for software.
• kluweronline.com another online library.
• some lecture notes I have downloaded recently
• PHP Manual 18 April 2003
• MySQL Manual version 4.1.1-alpha (for starters: go to Chapter 3 Tutorial Introduction)
• I compiled these Postscript links during a small project for my Computer Architecture course:
  • Glenn Reid's Thinking in PostScript is a book about writing PostScript programs for printers and emulator like GNU Ghostscript.You can download it here
  • Here are sample Examples from the Blue Book. A collection of 21 PostScript examples.
  • Encapsulated PostScript is a PostScript-like format with special properties. These links lead you to the specs, a tutorial, and some utilities. (I have borrowed them from LUC DEVROYE)
• GNU dot org   Click here

  	GNU Emacs   My favorite editor Click here (licensed under GPL)
  	GNU gcc   My favorite C++ compiler Click here (licensed under GPL)

• FarsiTeX, the best and a free, Persian typographic software, with high mathematical capabilities, FarsiTeX website
• a good English-Persian dictionary click here
• Sharif digital library search system
• My courses related materials:
  • My weekly program
  • My course projects

Contact Information:

most of the time you can find me in the computer site, at Computer Dept. of Sharif University of Technology. If I'm not there, be patient, sooner or later, I'll come!

Acknowledgment:

special thanks to Mohammad Hossein Bateni for his nice and teaching homepage, and special thanks to myself because of quite accidentally deleting my former homepage