Return of the Thesisometer
Posted by avsm Tue, 21 Jun 2005 15:30:59 GMT
Summer is upon us, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and ... the thesisometer has returned, courtesy of Andy Warfield! It's going to be a long summer ...
We make the New York Times!
Posted by avsm Thu, 07 Oct 2004 14:54:14 GMT
A very nice reporter from the New York Times showed up at Intel Research Cambridge last week, and he just published an article titled "Connecting Paper and Online Worlds by Cellphone Camera" about our work on SpotCodes. We're still trying to find a paper copy of the article as the NYTimes is not available in Cambridge unfortunately.
This is a much more serious article than a previous one by Wired titled "From the Prawn of Time" (which we shared with the extremely cool Prawn Sandwich Clock demonstrated at Notcon). Incidentally, on the academic front, the ACM MC2R journal just accepted some of our work on using visual tags to assist in Bluetooth service discovery. Things are certainly moving!
Onto second year
Posted by avsm Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:12:00 GMT
Just passed my first year PhD viva, with very friendly advice from Prof. Andy Hopper and my supervisor Tim Harris. General criticism is that I'm too unfocused, which is an accusation that is all too true :-)
What else? Been working away, the Ubicomp 2003 paper went down pretty well, Seattle was a lot of fun, and Cambridge is even more fun right now. I bought a new 15" Titanium PowerBook, but its developed the infamous white spots - argh! Anand's wedding is rapidly approaching, so gotta sort myself out for that (a visa to get into India would be a good start). Times are busy. Fun though... can't argue with the PhD lifestyle compared to being stuck on a plane every morning at 7am (although I do miss real Italian breakfasts...)
A new era of peace-of-mind dawns...
Posted by avsm Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:47:00 GMT
... since I've figured out what to submit for my thesis proposal :-)
I'm going to argue that language research has failed to make life easier for operating systems developers, and that there is a requirement for real high-level languages to make the structure of operating systems fundamentally better by use of type-safety and other such things that have been around for a very long time. The topic leaves me with plenty of breathing room to wander around playing with OCaml, GHC, and also work on the ideas of better web languages with Scotty and Sharpy.
I committed the privilege separated syslog daemon to the OpenBSD repository as well; it proved a lot harder than I expected (Theo de Raadt gave me an awful lot of help with it), so that's another area to think about ...
Click, click
Posted by avsm Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:51:00 GMT
A fun weekend, completely vegetating with Seb, Tino and Nick playing computer games. Seb's getting married in March, so we won't get to do this much after that :)
Interesting paper on enforceable security policies from Dave can be found here. I reckon the plan for my PhD is slowly forming now ...
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