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Short, Non-Technical Talks Are Hard

February 25th, 2010, 6:43 pm by Mathias

I just gave my talk Testing Concurrent Programs, A 7-Minute Jargon-Free Introduction to the students of the Thesis Writing Seminar of the School of Engineering here at Rice. It went very well, but I’ve got to say that this was probably the most difficult talk I’ve had to prepare.

It is a 7-minute talk to an [...]

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Pictures from Yesterday’s Talk

February 9th, 2010, 1:49 pm by Mathias

Here are a few pictures from yesterday’s talk about Mint.

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Mint Talk in COMP 600

February 8th, 2010, 3:39 pm by Mathias

I just gave the first presentation about Mint in the COMP 600 graduate seminar at Rice. The slides for “Mint: A Multi-stage Extension of Java” are available (PowerPoint, PDF, view embedded). This weekend, I was kicking myself why I had volunteered for this talk out of turn, but it was good practice, and I’m a [...]

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Photos from My COMP 600 Practice Talk

September 12th, 2009, 12:28 am by Mathias

Jennifer Harris was kind enough to video-tape m…

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Back from Calgary

September 4th, 2009, 1:05 pm by Mathias

So I’ve been back from Calgary for nearly a wee…

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Practice Talk in COMP 600 Graduate Seminar

August 24th, 2009, 1:45 pm by Mathias

In our COMP 600 graduate seminar, I gave a prac…

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Long Overdue Update

July 27th, 2009, 4:19 pm by Mathias

It is the end of July already. The last time I …

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Java Annotations for Types, Expressions and Multi-Staging

October 24th, 2008, 9:28 pm by Mathias

I gave another presentation in our PLT seminar …

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And Another Week Gone

September 24th, 2008, 9:45 am by Mathias

The last week was still spent catching up from …

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A New School Year

August 25th, 2008, 9:24 am by Mathias

It’s 9 AM now, and a new school year has begun….

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Is It Safe?

August 8th, 2008, 12:42 pm by Mathias

For the last couple of days I have been contemp…

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Tropical Storm Edouard

August 5th, 2008, 10:35 pm by Mathias

Today, Rice, UTH, and many other places in Hous…

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Connexions Version of “Programming for Change”

May 13th, 2008, 5:43 pm by Mathias

Dr. Nguyen had sent me an email with an example…

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Graduate Recruiting Day, Associates Interview, and DrJava Stuff

February 22nd, 2008, 6:44 pm by Mathias

Today is graduate recruiting day at the CS depa…

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Early Events Before AWT/Swing Realization?

February 14th, 2008, 11:50 pm by Mathias

On Tuesday, Dr. Nguyen asked me to help answer …

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Long Day

November 8th, 2007, 7:06 pm by Mathias

This was a long but productive day so far: I go…

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Submitted!

October 31st, 2007, 2:01 pm by Mathias

I submitted my thesis today. I had verified and…

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Final Stages

October 29th, 2007, 5:45 pm by Mathias

I’m about to start with the final submission pr…

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What Has Happened?

October 12th, 2007, 4:17 pm by Mathias

I haven’t written in 1.5 months. Hard to believ…

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First Day of the Semester

August 27th, 2007, 1:59 pm by Mathias

Today is the first day of the semester again, a…

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