We are currently planning and structuring our research for the next couple of years.
This will then be transformed into a research application at the DFG.
The structure and contents of the application are all set - now we are in the process of writing the application since we plan on expanding the research area by mid of next year.
This week, we'll finish the "Goal and Contributionts" section as well as the "Preliminary Results".
Next week should be the rest of "Related Work" and then we should be almost good to go.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Made the Switch to KIT
I finally made the switch to me@kit.edu.
That means sven.koerner@ ...
It took quite a while and somehow I had to mess with the whole administration to get it done.
The problem seems to have been that I am still a student (PhD student, to be precise) at university whereas I am also an employee of the university. Well, at least I have employee's rights.
Anyhow - the two accounts seem to be inherently distinct and this caused a lot of problems when I tried to get my paperwork straight.
That said, my quest for the kit.edu program is over. I made it and it took only 8 months (yes, it started in February with applying for the correct email address).
Background:
The University of Karlsruhe merged with other technology research projects in the area to form the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - short: KIT (yes, the similar sounding to MIT is intended). More information to be found at www.kit.edu
That means sven.koerner@ ...
It took quite a while and somehow I had to mess with the whole administration to get it done.
The problem seems to have been that I am still a student (PhD student, to be precise) at university whereas I am also an employee of the university. Well, at least I have employee's rights.
Anyhow - the two accounts seem to be inherently distinct and this caused a lot of problems when I tried to get my paperwork straight.
That said, my quest for the kit.edu program is over. I made it and it took only 8 months (yes, it started in February with applying for the correct email address).
Background:
The University of Karlsruhe merged with other technology research projects in the area to form the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - short: KIT (yes, the similar sounding to MIT is intended). More information to be found at www.kit.edu
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Planning Research Future
I am finally back from the US.
We spent the last couple of days focusing on planning, scoping and scheduling the research plans for the next couple of months. The complete plan includes work for the research group up to the year 2012. These are all tasks which we have and want to address in the future.
We will present our plans next week and try to get the buy in from our professor and faculty. After that, we can focus on budget and middle-term planning. The short-term planning (that is until April 2010) is almost finished. This includes
We spent the last couple of days focusing on planning, scoping and scheduling the research plans for the next couple of months. The complete plan includes work for the research group up to the year 2012. These are all tasks which we have and want to address in the future.
We will present our plans next week and try to get the buy in from our professor and faculty. After that, we can focus on budget and middle-term planning. The short-term planning (that is until April 2010) is almost finished. This includes
- 2 master's thesis
- 1 possible master's thesis
- my dissertation proposal
- and finally: my dissertation
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Attending the ICSC2009 in Berkely, USA
At this very moment, I am about to hear the opening keynote for the 2nd day of the ICSC2009 in Berkeley.
I got here on Sunday night after my 3 weeks vacation touring all over the western US (that includes Napa, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Phoenix) and visiting my family in San Diego.
I was fortunate enough to have my presentation at 10am the first day of the conference on Monday. It went wall and considering the fact that Dr. Fillmore and Dr. Scott attended my talk made it even more interesting. Some of the people who were in the audience let my know during the reception dinner that they really enjoyed my talk and that they were able to tell I was confident speaking in front of crowds. Well, that's when all the music studies and concerts I gave pay off ;-)
Today, I will listen to another parallel session about NLP - there were some interesting aspects so far which I might be able to consider for my work. I will have to thoroughly read the papers though.
That's it for now, I will keep you posted.
I got here on Sunday night after my 3 weeks vacation touring all over the western US (that includes Napa, Yosemite, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Phoenix) and visiting my family in San Diego.
I was fortunate enough to have my presentation at 10am the first day of the conference on Monday. It went wall and considering the fact that Dr. Fillmore and Dr. Scott attended my talk made it even more interesting. Some of the people who were in the audience let my know during the reception dinner that they really enjoyed my talk and that they were able to tell I was confident speaking in front of crowds. Well, that's when all the music studies and concerts I gave pay off ;-)
Today, I will listen to another parallel session about NLP - there were some interesting aspects so far which I might be able to consider for my work. I will have to thoroughly read the papers though.
That's it for now, I will keep you posted.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Planning Session for The Next 12 Months
After discussing a possible application for a project funding of our research, I sat down with the my colleagues to evaluate the situation.
The first step was to summon all possible achievements until today and to put these into the big picture. After approx. 2hours we had them sorted out.
The 2nd step then involved probing through ideas, visions, and hints we had so far. These then had to be included into the big picture to show what will be possible with our research in the long term.
As was to be expected, we extracted several tasks to check further research scopes and we will try to make this presentable by September, 20th.
From then on, we will try to write the application as well as focus the research on the big picture we just drew. This includes writing down my work for the purpose of finishing my PhD thesis.
Hopefully, this works out the way we planned it today.
But I have to say - it's a solid approach which makes a lot of sense.
I am off to San Francisco now - cya in a couple of weeks.
The first step was to summon all possible achievements until today and to put these into the big picture. After approx. 2hours we had them sorted out.
The 2nd step then involved probing through ideas, visions, and hints we had so far. These then had to be included into the big picture to show what will be possible with our research in the long term.
As was to be expected, we extracted several tasks to check further research scopes and we will try to make this presentable by September, 20th.
From then on, we will try to write the application as well as focus the research on the big picture we just drew. This includes writing down my work for the purpose of finishing my PhD thesis.
Hopefully, this works out the way we planned it today.
But I have to say - it's a solid approach which makes a lot of sense.
I am off to San Francisco now - cya in a couple of weeks.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Voted for IEEE presidency
Yesterday I voted for the IEEE presidency.
This year, online voting was possible. For a IEEE member not living in the US, this makes a hell lot of more sense than sending snail-mail ballots back to the middle-west of the US of A.
The online system is not beautiful, but it worked like a charm. Congratulations to the providers of this service. It saved my quite some time.
This year, online voting was possible. For a IEEE member not living in the US, this makes a hell lot of more sense than sending snail-mail ballots back to the middle-west of the US of A.
The online system is not beautiful, but it worked like a charm. Congratulations to the providers of this service. It saved my quite some time.
Submitted IJSC 2009 Article for Review
I just finished the paper for the IJSC 2009 journal.
It comprises 25 pages about my work in the previous 12 months.
As soon as I know if this paper is accepted, I will post it here.
So this should be it for this year's publications. Maybe one more at the end of the year, we'll see.
Next I will have to prepare my presentation for the ICSC 2009 conference in San Francisco. I still have to decide whether I want to make it "Presentation Zen" style, or standard. Depends on the conference attendees. And these you never know before you show up on site.
It comprises 25 pages about my work in the previous 12 months.
As soon as I know if this paper is accepted, I will post it here.
So this should be it for this year's publications. Maybe one more at the end of the year, we'll see.
Next I will have to prepare my presentation for the ICSC 2009 conference in San Francisco. I still have to decide whether I want to make it "Presentation Zen" style, or standard. Depends on the conference attendees. And these you never know before you show up on site.
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