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Passing Without Talking

by Paula Bach on February 05, 2008

My last blog was about me traveling to Limerick and Toronto. I have now defended my dissertation proposal and passed. (Yay!) Here is a funny story. A week before the proposal defense I created my presentation and rehearsed it every day until the third day before when I began to get a sore throat. I don’t think it was from rehearsing the presentation or nerves or anything like that. Instead it was just... more

• Tuesday, February 05, 2008
• in: Community
• Paula Bach

10th European Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) Conference - Limerick, Ireland

by Paula Bach on November 07, 2007

I’ve been on the road..In September, I went to Limerick, Ireland for the 10th European Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW) conference. Computer-supported cooperative work is a sub-sub-discipline of computerscience and a sub-discipline of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). CSCW researchers look at groupware, how people collaborate, and tools that support collaboration... ... more

• Wednesday, November 07, 2007
• Paula Bach

Kudos to Open Source Developers

by jcannon on July 03, 2006

We had to buy our own combination padlocks on our lockers in my high school. I used to forget the combination all the time (—I still have nightmares about that). I finally solved this by writing my combination in hex on the back of the lock. (I figured there was only one other kid in my class who would know what 0F was in base-10, so if anything was ever missing, I’d know where to look.)... more

• Monday, July 03, 2006
• in: Community
• jcannon