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VL/HCC Day Two

I would have posted yesterday, but I had an apache meltdown. Gentoo changed the structure of the apache configuration files to better match the apache upstream. I did not discover this until after the emerge was complete and the apache service refused to restart (due to the old configuration), but that's another story.

The conference has been going great thus far (yesterday and today). The graduate student consortium was very interesting and the personal feedback was informative and helpful. Despite being the last to present, people seemed genuinely interested in my research, asked good questions and made thought provoking comments.

Today was the first day of the general conference. It's fascinating to see new research and ideas. I love being able to mill around and talk to top researchers during the breaks, probe them with questions, and get their advice.

We had a clean sweep of OSU students for the "End-User Debugging and Testing" session. It's been exciting to see OSU perform so well. It's great to see my peers give solid presentations of interesting research.

This evening we had a reception to give people an opportunity to mill around, discuss research, and ask each other questions. The reception started at 6:30 PM and I stayed around talking until 10:00 PM. I can't believe how fast the time flew.

Tomorrow is another full day. After all the paper presentations during the day, we are going to the South Fork Ranch (a.k.a. the set of "Dallas") for a banquet. I'm looking forward to another great day.

Posted by enigma at September 21, 2005 08:14 PM