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Category Archives: Graduate School
Dissertation and Numbers
I received the bound copies of my dissertation yesterday. They look nice, but they’re kind of thin, for so much work. Including front matter, there are 157 pages. Some more numbers: The source code for my dissertation project has 35,979 … Continue reading
Perforce Migration
Ever since my internship at National Instruments, I’ve been using Perforce as version control system. Thanks to their evaluation license, which is limited to two users, this has been completely free for me. I’m glad that I stuck with Perforce, … Continue reading
Upper Bound
According to Nature, about 37,000 PhDs are awarded annually. If there were that many degree recipients during the last 100 years (and there weren’t), and if all of them are still alive (they aren’t), then there’d be 3.7 million people … Continue reading
All Done
My time in graduate school is over. A friend just turned my dissertation in for me. Dr. Mathias Ricken is done. I had a great time. Thanks to everyone who helped.
Visa Interview
Today, I went to Berlin to renew my student visa. For the last few weeks, I had collected letters, filled out forms, taken passport pictures and paid fees. Compared to five years ago, everything was a bit easier. The main … Continue reading
Short, Non-Technical Talks Are Hard
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 … Continue reading
Mint Talk in COMP 600
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 … Continue reading
Photos from My COMP 600 Practice Talk
Jennifer Harris was kind enough to video-tape m… Continue reading
Back from Calgary
So I’ve been back from Calgary for nearly a wee… Continue reading
Practice Talk in COMP 600 Graduate Seminar
In our COMP 600 graduate seminar, I gave a prac… Continue reading
Long Overdue Update
It is the end of July already. The last time I … Continue reading
Java Annotations for Types, Expressions and Multi-Staging
I gave another presentation in our PLT seminar … Continue reading
And Another Week Gone
The last week was still spent catching up from … Continue reading
A New School Year
It’s 9 AM now, and a new school year has begun…. Continue reading
Is It Safe?
For the last couple of days I have been contemp… Continue reading
Tropical Storm Edouard
Today, Rice, UTH, and many other places in Hous… Continue reading
Connexions Version of “Programming for Change”
Dr. Nguyen had sent me an email with an example… Continue reading
Graduate Recruiting Day, Associates Interview, and DrJava Stuff
Today is graduate recruiting day at the CS depa… Continue reading