IEEE ICSC - We're Coming!

We got word today that another of our papers was accepted.
The conference is the IEEE ICSC 2009 conference in Berkeley, CA.

We are happy that we achieved the acknowledgment for the huge effort we made to write this paper. The "reading was excellent" (that's what the reviewers said) and we made it though the acceptance rate was below 30%.
This really makes my day.

This weeks plans still are to finalize the presentation for the SEKE 2009 conference and then work on the camera ready file of the ICSC paper.

I'll keep you updated.

Giving the Presentation a Garr Reynolds Style

Some of you might have read the book "Presentation Zen" by Garr Reynolds or maybe follow his blog.
I am changing my plain standard presentation (as I laid it out last week) into a Garr-style presentation. I expect it to fulfill a couple of serious jobs for me while I present one year's work in about 25 minutes. These jobs are:

• get the attention of the audience though they might already be exhausted from the 2 days prior conference presentations they have seen
• transport my message, i.e. giving them a profound and understandable overview of what I have done within the last 12 months of research
• get them excited for the subject so that I can gather valuable feedback and comments
• stick out of the masses (which I personally think is always good)
• get more attendants to read my actual article in the conference proceedings

Other possible options are:

• win the best-paper award because of the presentation
• get offered a million dollar job because of that presentation
• ... fill in any possible dream you might have ...
  

Well, that's it for this week's funny story. I am off for the holiday and travel to Switzerland after that.
The proposal has to wait a couple of more days.

I wish you the best. Cya.

Created SEKE 2009 presentation

Hi Folks,

just got done with the presentation for SEKE 2009 which takes place in Boston in approx. 4 weeks.
So far I have arranged a presentation of 12 slides which should be enough to transport my research and also entertain the people a little bit.
We all know that research presentations can be long, tiresome and back-killers once your forehead hits the table since you fell asleep. Well, it's not that bad, but we could all learn something from TED. That's for sure.

Further, I am still waiting for feedback to the other conference we sent our latest paper.
This might mark the start of the final stage of my PhD program.
We'll see, I'll keep you guys posted.

Have a great night, I am out of here.