Tag Archives: School of Informatics

We do wireless

By alex | Published: 3/9/2005
Last night I went to a set of presentations from students in our wifi class in the Masters in Informatics program. Really good stuff. Three groups all went out and did site surveys and decided on what made sense for the wireless users at specific sites. One of the sites was a local electronic instrumentation […]
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How rank

By alex | Published: 3/3/2005
This morning was our lovely departmental (Communication) faculty meeting. Most of the morning was spent making admissions and support decisions, which I always kind of enjoy. I know this is an awful thing to say, given how important the process is to our applicants, but it is a bit like catalog shopping. You’re never quite […]
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Ecstasy and Agony

By alex | Published: 1/13/2005
Nice to find your Ph.D. alma 20th in a list of the top universities in the world — just about half the score of Harvard, at far less than half the price. Not as nice is finding the institution you work for listed in the 200-300 group.
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Oxford Internet Institute, Beijing

By alex | Published: 11/30/2004
Should have posted this earlier, but now here it is. This year the School of Informatics (my institution) is one of the groups supporting the OII Summer School, and our newest assistant professor, Pauline Cheong, will be among the faculty. Our own grad students have fellowships available to them. Tracy has done a better job […]
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