First and foremost, happy shouts out to Josh and Justin. The former became gainful in a job that will keep him in the Midwest (when not flying about), and the latter is just a super really-cool guy. And oh, he won top honors for the student poster at NetSci 2006. Even more amazing an accomplishment [...]
NetSci 2006 – Day v2.2
After this NetSci 2006 gig, 17 capstones in 11-1/2 hours this Friday is going to be a breeze. Unless there’s math. I almost skipped the early morning session, or part of it, for fear of the same. Glad I didn’t, as Gary Robins gave a talk on modeling social network structures to account for both [...]
NetSci 2006 – Day 462
Well, it feels that way at times. NetSci 2006 has been a great experience, exposing my designerly brain to new ideas in a relatively new field of network science. I missed my ride(s) in on Friday and opted out on Saturday, giving me several days to rest up for more information overload. So far, the [...]
Happy Birthday, Amy!
Everybody say/post/email a happy birthday to Amy today. Especially since her delinquent husband is spending it listening to more stuff about networks.
NetSci 2006 – Day 3
Having skipped the morning in favor of (a) sleeping in past 8a and (b) playing with Archie, I found the length of this day much more tolerable. Justin gave me a ride to the site, along with a couple of stray NetScientists who got stranded. The plus is I correctly pegged another draining math-centric lecture, [...]
Internetless
I’m glad I’ve been going to this NetSci 2006 thing, but it is too packed and dense with information to do anything else during the day. It was an easy decision not to bring a laptop, especially since my laptop does not have wireless. However, that puts a lot more pressure on the evening to [...]
NetSci 2006 – Day 2
I think maybe next year, 90-minute workshop sessions starting at 9 and ending by 5 (9, 11, 1:30, 3:30) would be an improvement. This is a lot of network info to absorb. The morning began with IU’s Alex Vespignani, who had to go early to catch a flight later that morning. Much of the content [...]