Today, my last work day before Christmas, I gave a draft of chapters 3, 4 and 5 of my thesis to my supervisor! This was pretty much what I was aiming for, so I’m quite happy and feel I can let myself have a week or so off now to relax and psych [...]
I recently blogged about Google Scholar. While this is a great tool for finding interesting papers, I also seem to spend a lot of time trying to find the relevant meta-data for a paper someone has sent or given me, or I’ve just had lieing around for a few months and forgotten from where I [...]
So, two particularly good things happened to me this week:
I was offered a job! It’s at a large investment bank based in Canary Wharf, and since I really liked the company, and the people I met when I went to interview there, I think I shall probably accept.
I started writing my thesis.
So… plans for [...]
Almost makes me nostalgic for lectures….
CompSci Lecturer Quotes
Another great tool from my favourite search engine company: Google Scholar. Similar to citeseer, Google Scholar only indexes academic papers but is broader in scope than just scientific literature, and given Google’s track record, hopefully won’t suffer from citeseer’s chronic availability problems!
I’ve felt for sometime that the biggest obstacle to securing computer systems that have to be used by ordinary users is the human-computer interface, and this was one of the key aspects of our paper Trust for transparent, ubiquitous collaboration. Security is often in direct conflict with usability as by definition “security” means denying a [...]
I’ve grown rather sceptical about attending seminars lately as often about half way through I find myself thinking that the time might be better spent reading the associated paper instead! However I am rather tempted to attend the following:
Wed 27th October: What every Computer Scientist Needs to Know about Software Licenses — Andrew [...]
From join-the-dots:
One of the lesser-known facts about academia is that the summer is far more conducive to research than any other time of year.
Related to this seems to be the fact that there are an awful lot of conference paper submission deadlines around September time. In my field of interest, PerCom and TRECK are this [...]
No, this isn’t a rant about the vast amounts of unsolicited junk I receive on a daily basis, it’s about two research papers I have recently written on anti-spam tools.
Last week I learnt that a paper I had written based on the work of one of my part II project students had been accepted for [...]
Earlier this week I attended the Editorial Board meeting of the IEEE’s first online-only magazine, DS Online.
This is the third year I have attended this annual meeting of editors and volunteers and as ever they were a fun and interesting group of people who are very committed to making this bleeding edge project a success [...]