Nick Feamster·Oct 29, 2025I’ve moved to SubstackSince starting my blog nearly 20 years ago, I’ve had to move it more times than I care to count: Drupal → WordPress → Medium → Substack…
InSouth Side RunsbyNick Feamster·Sep 20, 2023Breaking Up With Strava“This place is a prison. These people aren’t your friends.”
InGreat ResearchbyNick Feamster·Feb 26, 2021Timnit Gebru’s Words to Live ByTimnit Gebru, gave a talk at the University of Chicago that is a much-watch for all computer scientists and technologists.
InGreat ResearchbyNick Feamster·Feb 12, 2021Finding and Proposing a Ph.D. Dissertation TopicWhat makes a good Ph.D. dissertation? How do you find a topic? When should you propose?
InSouth Side RunsbyNick Feamster·Dec 24, 2020How to Run in Cold WeatherThere’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing.
InNoise LabbyNick Feamster·Dec 10, 2020Internet Censorship Research Presentation for National CS Ed WeekI visited Lincoln Park High School as part of CS Ed Week to talk about Internet censorship, the urban digital divide, and ethics in CS.
InNoise LabbyNick Feamster·Dec 9, 2020Oblivious DNS Deployed by Cloudflare and AppleCloudflare and Apple extend and deploy UChicago and Princeton’s Oblivious DNS protocol, in the form of Oblivious DoH.A response icon2A response icon2
InNoise LabbyNick Feamster·Dec 4, 2020Keynote Talk at AFRICOMM 2020 on DNS PrivacyProfessor Feamster gave a keynote to AFRICOMM 2020 today entitled “The Past, Present, and Future of DNS Privacy”.
InNoise LabbyNick Feamster·Nov 24, 2020Article on the Future of Internet Speed Tests in Communications of the ACMFuture Internet speed tests must reflect application performance and user quality of experience, in addition to measuring fast links.
InNoise LabbyNick Feamster·Nov 24, 2020Talking Censorship and Content Moderation on Chicago TonightProfessor Feamster talked about online content moderation, machine learning, and Internet censorship with WTTW Chicago Tonight.