Whirlwind Week
First off, thank you to everyone's words of encouragement last week about my talk. I did read all the comments the morning before my talk, I just didn't have an opportunity to reply. Thanks again.
The 3rd and final installment of my Berlin trip is still in the works. I haven't had the time to write that up yet.
Anyway, I got back from Berlin on Sunday evening. Unfortunately my luggage didn't make it back with me which was a big disappointment. After getting home and unpacking (my backpack) I headed right to work. My group planned on submitted a paper to the NSDI conference which is due next Monday. I was also scheduled to give a demo to the deputy director of DARPA (Bob Leheny) on Friday. But by 8PM jetlag had fully set in and I had to sleep.
Monday's group meeting went rather pessimistically, and there was talk about calling off the paper. I was still optimistic that I could get the data we needed. As the week progressed that optimism quickly disappeared.
After class this morning I made my way to the Intel lab. I was informed the demo on Friday was cancelled since the DARPA people couldn't fly out of DC (Hurricane Isabel to the rescue). That was a big load off my shoulders. I then proceeded to process the latest batch of data I collected all last night. I was hoping it would be good, it wasn't. I sent out a status report to the group and about 20 minutes later one of the professors (Ion) calls me. We decided we had no reasonable chance of finishing the paper on time. I really blame myself for this. It was my experiments that were failing, core system benchmarks that should have been tested earlier. Ion insisted that it wasn't my fault, but I'm not sure I believe that yet.
The last 3 weeks have been completely hectic, nonstop work. From school starting up, NSDI paper, VLDB talk, and demos. I think its time to go home for a bit and recuperate. Maybe now I'll have time to catch up on other people's LJs.
The 3rd and final installment of my Berlin trip is still in the works. I haven't had the time to write that up yet.
Anyway, I got back from Berlin on Sunday evening. Unfortunately my luggage didn't make it back with me which was a big disappointment. After getting home and unpacking (my backpack) I headed right to work. My group planned on submitted a paper to the NSDI conference which is due next Monday. I was also scheduled to give a demo to the deputy director of DARPA (Bob Leheny) on Friday. But by 8PM jetlag had fully set in and I had to sleep.
Monday's group meeting went rather pessimistically, and there was talk about calling off the paper. I was still optimistic that I could get the data we needed. As the week progressed that optimism quickly disappeared.
After class this morning I made my way to the Intel lab. I was informed the demo on Friday was cancelled since the DARPA people couldn't fly out of DC (Hurricane Isabel to the rescue). That was a big load off my shoulders. I then proceeded to process the latest batch of data I collected all last night. I was hoping it would be good, it wasn't. I sent out a status report to the group and about 20 minutes later one of the professors (Ion) calls me. We decided we had no reasonable chance of finishing the paper on time. I really blame myself for this. It was my experiments that were failing, core system benchmarks that should have been tested earlier. Ion insisted that it wasn't my fault, but I'm not sure I believe that yet.
The last 3 weeks have been completely hectic, nonstop work. From school starting up, NSDI paper, VLDB talk, and demos. I think its time to go home for a bit and recuperate. Maybe now I'll have time to catch up on other people's LJs.