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.

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.

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.

IJSC 2009 Article in the Making

I just finished structuring the IJSC article which will be published in the special edition of this year's print.
I did receive an invitation to add some of my work after submitting another paper to the ICSC 2009 conference.

The paper for the journal must not be longer than 25 pages which means we will be able to add some information compared to prior papers for conferences, but will not be able to holistically describe our approach. Well, that's what publishing is all about: Put it in a nutshell.

The deadline is Wednesday, so not much slack there this weekend. But hey, that's the way we wanted it.

Sunny greetings - weather is perfect here.