This afternoon I attended a welcoming session for new postgraduate students, organized by the department of Mathematical Sciences of which Computer Science is a part. I found it very stimulating. There was some advice on the technicalities and practicalities, but also a lot of emphasis on the social aspects of postgraduate studies in mathematics. There [...]
Somewhere in my vast archive of papers (the sorting of which I dread), is a very nice article about computing metaphors. As, we know, there is nothing new under the sun. This is also true, especially true, of Computer Science. Perhaps not all, but many, concepts are borrowed from other disciplines. Two simple examples are [...]
Today has been a busy day. My plan to sleep better has taken a back seat for the moment. It seems that all administration and research and other responsibilities (around the house) are coming down on me at exactly the same time, and tonight I’ve wasted a couple of hours trying to fix a mysterious [...]
I’m slowly readapting myself to having internet at home. The essential radio shows have slowly returned to my playing list, and today I added the Swiss radio news broadcast and the Finnish television news broadcast. I probably won’t be listening to them every single day — the other radio shows are once a week affairs [...]
Today I was working with Willem on a grant application. He has much more experience and his first step was to check the deadline. Nasty surprise: deadline had already elapsed! Oops! I was supposed to check that! So, quick email to one of the organizers to see if we couldn’t squeeze in our application (which [...]