Officially an IEEE member now

This is actually the first time I am back at my university office since the SEKE conference in Boston.
I am now officially an IEEE member with an IEEE ID. Nice.

For the time being, it saved my university approx. $200 when registering for the ICSC2009. That benefit is not directly for me, but hey - it's for the good of the world (or so I keep telling me).

ICSC 2009 Camera Ready Submitted

It was not as easy as expected (had to follow all the authors rules and then pdfXpress check would not work), but I finally managed to submit our camera ready file to ICSC.
It passed the IEEEXplore test and is therefore valid and approved for printing.

The paper can be viewed here.

Have fun with it.

SEKE 2009 Paper and Presentation for Download

Hi Folks,

here is my paper for download.

And for those of you who already requested it, here are the slides I used for the presentation.
This slide-deck actually includes 2 more slides which I was not able to show during the presentation. But who knew that the projector was going to die on me after 10 minutes? Exactly: nobody.

Have fun with it and leave me a comment what you thought about it.

FYI: Next step is camera ready version for ICSC 2009. Should be finished this weekend.

Attending the SEKE 2009 in Boston

I am at the SEKE 2009 in Boston at this very moment.
I have already seen astonishing presentations, i.e. in a good and a bad way.

• There was a presentation where a girl literally read her slides aloud while watching the screen not even looking at the audience once. I thought this was just a joke about powerpoint madness. Reality can be tough.
• There was a very nice presentation which included audience interaction with the speaker as well as very easy to grasp examples with hands on experience. The guy used balls which he juggled during his presentation. Pretty good show and his points came across easily. I still remember all the aspects he noted during his presentation. Well, that was really good.

My talk will be tomorrow morning o920am (ET).
Tonight is the banquett dinner which includes a city bus tour and a visit at Harvard. I am looking forward to that.

Have a good week and I'll let you know how the presentation went.