I realize, I haven’t posted anything on my personal blog for a while, so I think it’s time I start doing it again (at least I’ve tried to post more often on WoT), and I’ll use this more as a personal dump of ideas, thoughts, and use WoT for more professional content. That means the [...]
January 1, 2009 – 7:36 am
The clock is ticking. In couple of hours we’ll be in 2009. But another clock is also ticking. Life’s clock. 2008 has been a year filled with tons of things for me, successes, failures, meetings, revelations, fun times and less funny moments. Even some sad moments sometimes. And I’ve learned lots of things, on all [...]
December 22, 2008 – 7:45 am
Yeah, sure I’ve said millions of times I’ll go back to blogging, but never did. WHY?? I dunno… But his time I feel like things are different. I started much more actively working on my phd and I really plan to focus all my energy on that.
I’m in Romania now, so I have some time [...]
March 24, 2008 – 10:06 pm
Professor Sir Ara Darzi, (not many notes…
Today, the complexity of healthcare has tremendous impact on people life’s. Technology is moving us from minimally invasive towards incision-less surgery.
Sir Darzi
There is a need for a more dynamic and personalized monitoring of patients, in particular the one who suffer from a long [...]
March 24, 2008 – 10:02 pm
Professor Anupam Joshi, “Trust, security, and privacy in Ubiquitous Computing”.
Security is essential because we interact with devices that are not in our home or office, but most of the work done in security for distributed system is not directly applicable to unicomp because these systems are open and dynamic. For that we can create policies [...]
In the afternoon, professor Jeannette Wing presented her talk entitled “Computational thinking and thinking about computation” (slides). She wrote a short essay “J.M. Wing, “Computational Thinking, CACM Viewpoint, March 2006, pp. 33-35 (paper) and introduced her big vision for our future.
Prof. Wing
Computational thinking (CT) should become a fundamental skill for everybody in the [...]
This is one long post here…
The day started with Professor Gaetano Borriello, from University of Washington and his talk entitled “Invisible Computing.”
Prof. Bariello started with the classical Weiser’s quote “the most remarkable technologies are those that disappear”, but remarked that currently computers are not really disappearing. He stressed an important aspect in the metaphor of [...]
Professor Ozalp Babaoglu: “self-* properties of complex systems“.
Current information systems have reached a level of complexity that makes it very complicated to manage and deploy distributed software using traditional techniques. Nowadays, most costs are related to maintain and fix existing systems rather than buying new equipment. To lower the total cost of ownerships of IT [...]
March 19, 2008 – 10:20 pm
I just got back from London today, and… what a city! Hugely diverse, an amazing mash-up of cultures, fun, and food packed in a funky city. I took the time to visit (of course) the Tate Modern (an totally amazing building by the way), and a cool exhibition of Banksy in there. It’s crazy to [...]
March 14, 2008 – 10:33 am
I’m off for London tomorrow as there is this this awesome meeting next week entitled “From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020“, organized by the Royal Society. I’ll try to take plenty of notes, but it’ll be hard as it’s packed with great people. Like I’m gonna feel quite insignificant with such a line-up:
Professor Ozalp [...]
