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<TITLE> Archna's home page </TITLE>
<H1> Archna Kalra <!WA0><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/cgi-bin/finger?[e-mail]">&lt;[e-mail]</a>&gt;</H1>
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<!WA1><img src="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/GUDIYA.JPG">
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Hindi: <em> Archna </em> = "Act of worship; Prayer"<br>
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<H2>What..</H2>
Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant
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<H2>Where...</H2>
<!WA2><a href="http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/info/cartsdir/index.html">Center for Autonomous Real-Time Systems</a><br>
<!WA3><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/"><!WA4><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/">Computer Science Department</a> <br>
<!WA5><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/rcfdocs/newhome/index.html">
University</a> of
<!WA6><a href="http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/misc/mass.html"> Massachusetts</a> <br>
<!WA7><a href="http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/guest/amherst.html"> Amherst,</a>
<!WA8><a href="http://www.magnet.state.ma.us/"> Mass.  </a>
<!WA9><a href="http://www.usps.gov/"> 01003-4610 </a><br>
<!WA10><a HREF=http://www.umass.edu/cgi-bin/ph2.pl> +1 413 545</a>-4753 (office)<br>
<!WA11><a HREF=http://www.umass.edu/cgi-bin/ph2.pl> +1 413 545</a>-1249 (fax)<br>
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<H2>With...</H2>
<!WA12><a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/krithi/home.html">Prof. Krithi Ramamritham</a><br>
<!WA13><a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/stankovic/home.html">Prof. John A. Stankovic</a><br>
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<H2>Since...</H2>
September 1995
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<H2>In the Ancient times...</H2>
I did my B.A. in Economics in 1987 at the University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Thereafter, I got a teaching diploma at New Delhi (1989) and taught tiny-tots for
three years at Bal Bharati Public School, New Delhi.  Click <!WA14><a href= "http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/myclass.html">here
 </a> to see a picture of the first class I taught (1990).  
And <!WA15><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/chil.html">this</a> is how I like to think of my experience
teaching children...
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In July 1992, I attended the <!WA16><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/isse.html">ISSE</a> (International School to School Experience) conference at Cincinnati.
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<!WA17><img src="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/pitt.gif">
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I did my B.S. in Computer Science at the <!WA18><a href="http://www.pitt.edu/">University of Pittsburgh</a>, <!WA19><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/pittsburgh.html">Pittsburgh </a>.  In 
my two year stay at the University, I worked with <!WA20><a href="http://bert.cs.pitt.edu/~mosse">Daniel Mosse'</a> in Real-Time Fault
Tolerance, who is an Assistant Professor in the <!WA21><a href="http://www.cs.pitt.edu/"> Dept. of Computer Science </a>, Univ. of
Pittsburgh.
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Click <!WA22><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/cath.html"> here </a> to see the Cathedral of Learning at the Univ. of 
Pittsburgh.
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<H2>Interests...</H2>
Movies, Music, Books, Comics, Desserts.
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Here is a <!WA23><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/resume.ps">postscript </a> version of my resume.  And an <!WA24><a href="http://www.cs.umass.edu/~archna/resume.text"> ascii </a> version.
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<H2>My lesser known Part-time occupation...</H2>
Pondering about the Whys, Could have beens, Will bes...
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<H2>What I would like to do...</H2>
Learn Ceramics<br>
Learn to fly<br>
Do a space-walk<br>
Learn to play the piano<br>
Have my own greenhouse<br>
Visit Utah, San Francisco, North Carolina, Portland, Seattle,<br>
Egypt, Greece, Switzerland, France.<br>
And of course, get a Volvo!<br>
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<H2>Trying to do...</H2>
Make life nicer.
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<H2>Will be doing...</H2>
Summer intern at <!WA25><a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com">Hewlett-Packard Labs</a>, Palo Alto, California.  Working with 
<!WA26><a href="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Martin_Fouts">Martin Fouts</a> on the Cue Project.
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<H2>Interesting Links...</H2>
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<dt><!WA27><a href="http://www.techiesinc.com/~lbd/">My cool techie sister-in-law</a>

<dt><!WA28><a href="http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert"> Dilbert</a>

<dt><!WA29><a href="http://www.stockgroup.com/TSTY/tstysummary.html">Guess what's new on Vending machines!</a>

<dt><!WA30><a href="http://www.private-music.com/pm/susan/susan.html"> Susan Werner - the greatest folk singer in the world! </a>

<dt><!WA31><a href="http://www.inch.com/~jasonh/cdclubs/">BMG and Columbia House Music clubs</a>

<dt><!WA32><a href="http://www.npr.org/"> NPR on-line </a>

<dt><!WA33><a href="http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster">Webster on-line</a>

<dt><!WA34><a href="http://wagner.Princeton.EDU/foldoc/">A Computing dictionary</a>

<dt>Check out the <!WA35><a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/db/bib.html">Warp-speed
search-engine</a> on Databases bibliography

<dt><!WA36><a href="http://www.economist.com/">The Economist</a>

<dt><!WA37><a href="http://www.cnn.com/">CNN</a>

<dt><!WA38><a href="http://www.webpage.com/hindu/">The Hindu - A national daily in India</a>

<dt><!WA39><a href="http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/">A word-server</a>

<dt><!WA40><a href="http://www.intellicast.com/weather/intl/"> World weather</a>

<dt><!WA41><a href="http://www.realtime.net/~jozef3/penn.html"Some pictures of Pennsylvania</a>

<dt><!WA42><a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~kamath/spring.html"> Spring in Amherst</a>

<dt><!WA43><a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~kamath/summer.html">Summer in Amherst</a>

<dt><!WA44><a href="http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~kamath/fall.html">Fall in Amherst</a>

<dt>Some great people at the Univ. of Pittsburgh:
<dd><!WA45><a href="http://bert.cs.pitt.edu/~panos/"> Panos Crysanthis </a>
<dd><!WA46><a href="http://bert.cs.pitt.edu/~gupta/"> Rajiv Gupta </a>
<dd><!WA47><a href="http://bert.cs.pitt.edu/~mosse/"> Daniel Mosse' </a>
<dd><!WA48><a href="http://bert.cs.pitt.edu/~pollack/"> Martha Pollack </a>
<dd><!WA49><a href="http://bert.cs.pitt.edu/~ramirez/"> John Ramirez </a>

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