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Yesterday, I attended CASCON 2009 (Center for Advanced Studies Conference). My team was hosting a workshop on the Technology Explorer, so I attended a part of that, as well as another workshop on Software Engineering 2.0 and Research 2.0 The latter made me realize the importance of being able to pool data from various resources, and link them to one another appropriately, so that we can make

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Where did the time go? It certainly doesn't feel like 4 months since my last blog entry...So in the past 4 months, I've been working on multiple versions of process-based and thread-based workload drivers in C and Java for DB2. The drivers forked off or threaded off their workers to perform various queries, and reported back to the database how many read/write/total queries their workers

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Wow I don't even know where to start; it has been so long since the last update. This will probably be a long entry. Exactly 2 months ago, my internship at IBM started with a half-day orientation session, followed by a few days of administrative issues and setting up of my workstation. I joined right when IBM was testing for its release of DB2 ver. 9.7 and TE (Technology Explorer) ver. 3.5.

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I'm done with 4 of my 5 courses this term, and 2 of them have grades out. Both were higher than I'd hoped for, and the other 3 will be out by the end of next week, probably. I still need to study for my 7pm exam tomorrow, and then I'm done with school for a while. 24 hours...

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On Tuesday, I went to go see Showcase 2009, where undergrad and graduate students presented their projects for the spring term. I had to leave early for a meeting, but I went to see what other students were working on, as well as to get ideas for my own project come fall 2010 (hopefully) after finishing my internship with IBM.The first project that caught my eye was "Designing Video Games to

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So the spring term of classes is coming to an end: 3 more days of classes, followed by a month of exam time (why so long...), immediately followed by PEY internship at IBM! It's going to be another super busy week though because I've got 4 assignments, 1 test, and 1 presentation to do, as well as catching up on a month of psychology reading... One of the assignments is finished, another is

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2 days ago, there was a panel called "Research in Action" where some 36 UofT graduate students' research projects were put on display for discussing and demonstrating. Although I had a midterm and a quiz the next day, I managed to free some time to visit several booths.Some of the non-words-related projects I found interesting included:a mobile device that allowed the user to know what they were

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I'm currently taking CSC384 : Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, and it's been fun so far. We use Prolog for all our assignments, which is an interesting language to work with. I first learned Prolog last term, where I struggled tremendously to understand how it works. However, by the end of the assignment, the way Prolog worked fascinated me. The idea of unification and boolean predicates

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Since January, I'd been actively applying and interviewing for internships for the academic year of 2009-2010. Luckily, in the first week of February, I was extended an offer from IBM for a 16-month internship. At the time, I was already leaning towards accepting the offer, but I also had other interviews scheduled, to be able to confirm to myself that this really was the position I wanted, and

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For CSC301, we've been working on a browser-based family tree viewer in JavaScript. My team consists of 4 people, and so far I think the team has been getting along well. In terms of the amount/quality of work done however, there remains a lot of improvement. This was clear even before we had our first group meeting with Greg last Friday.On Friday, the meeting started out with Greg asking if

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I've been meaning to start a blog for a month or so, and just never had the time due to an overwhelming amount of schoolwork. I was getting on average 5hours of sleep a night and barely had time to relax. 7 out of the 9 days of reading week were spent entirely on studying! I'm wondering though if that is because I'm simply inefficient or because there really was that much work to be done.My

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