Today’s IDS reported a mostly-old-news update on Chris Soghoian‘s issues with TSA (“Send Chris Money”), but there was this shoe dropped in the text: Soghoian said he is disappointed with IU for its lack of support in this situation. He plans to finish his classes at IU for another year and then transfer to a [...]
Deadlines are for wimps
… but wimps with a better chance of being published. So, a funny thing happened on the way to CHI. Turns out, the work-in-progress I had on the shelf for two month, the same one I casually pecked at over the break, the same exact one on which I worked this weekend … it was [...]
Holiday Thanks But No Thanks
Some aspects of the Ph.D. program at the School of Informatics are starting to feel like Cousin Ned, the awkward relative with stinky feet and a variable definition of personal space. At family gatherings, everyone else forgets to tell poor Ned when the meal has started, leaving him a choice between fingered cheese cubes and [...]
Whew
It was difficult not to blog about this last night, when Chris gave me the good news about his recent run-in with federal authorities (“Chris has been Wikipediafied”). No charges. Stuff back. Lots of fun stories to tell future children and audiences on the lecture circuit. This was my favorite insight from Chris’s post-mortem on [...]
Fantasy Congress
I realized today that the bulk of my recent posts have been political. I suppose that is just a reflection on the season and the RootsCamp project. However, here’s something that also overlaps my interest in Fantasy Sports … Fantasy Congress. The concept is familiar to anyone who spent five years positioning to draft Peyton [...]
Dr. Brownbag
Our first Ph.D. Brownbag session came and went today with three second-year Ph.D. students talking about their research work. To kick-start our new doctoral forum, Jim Costello and Amrita Mohan gave nice overviews of bioinformatics and their areas of interest. Since there isn’t much opportunity, outside of capstone presentations, to understand what the science folk [...]
Reflection-in-Action for Informatics
David Hakken gave a lecture in the I501 Intro to Informatics class yesterday afternoon that spoke to the important problem of defining Informatics. One of the paths we all take in the program here is trying to have that term — informatics — make sense to us, in our context of the world. I feel [...]