Article is actually ... up!

Wow, it has been ... 5 months since I said I would write that article? Well ... here it is! A link to it anyway: http://www.jimhi.com/content/articles/ .

Will be writing a nice auto table of contents generator and folding javascript now, so it looks a bit nice and follows the site a bit more.

Probably wise to add a link back too !

Next article to be written will be on a java version of the Enigma machine I wrote. Then I shall write up a maze generator and solver which Stephen Wattam and myself built for the Computing Society.

Laters

Possibly the third attempt to start using this.

Yo.

Well, as everyone who has a blog is aware, its hard to actually find anything to put in it, never mind actually remembering to write it.

Ok, so personal stuff. Started my studentship at Lancaster University within the EIS(http://eis.comp.lancs.ac.uk) research group. Still unsure of an actual topic, although I will probably swing towards the algorithmic side of localisation in WSN.

Still, I rarely have time to do any personal code, yet some stuff happens. Recently wrote a basic heightmap generator in Ruby, currently porting to Lua, and it outputs some nice images using image tools like RMagick or just plain VT100 colour output.

Post to follow explaining the code.

NSTA - Progress

Woo Progress!

NSTA was progressed to a fully fledged prototype. It now outputs the node position and the connections in the logical graph. Shall do some message browsing and a quick propogation algorithm and release it for you viewing displeasure!

C

Academic Updates

Francois, Hugo and myself have almost finished writing the paper summing up our work on PAMPA for the last 2 years. We shall be submitting to the International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive, Mobile and Embedded Computing, at Middleware 2009 in Illinois, USA.

I have also been working on making my NS-2 trace anaylser package ready to be released and making a small example program to use. Hopefully shall be released soon. Shall open it and SourceForge it once it is ready.

Cheers all!

Funding Results

Woo,

I am now an officially funded Ph.D student soon to be studying Localisation of mobile nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks.

I will now eat cake.

Degree finished

Ok, so my degree results are in and I passed with first class honours. Sweet.

Now just to wait for my Ph.D funding. Hopefully today or tomorrow.

I am currently working on a C/Lua agent based AI simulation and will soon br poking around with my colleagues game engine to give it physics.

Will post interesting stuff.

Exam 1 Science 0

Well, it has been a while.

I have been working on a paper of my cumulative work from the past 2 years to submit to IEEE LCN 2009 .... however the paper deadline was today. I had an exam, and so time was spent revising.

I decided to pull the paper and look to submit for MobiCom09. This should give me some time to get some more data and show better trends.

Plus any edit time is good time.

So! Exams. Concurrency and Operating Systems today. I think it went ok. Questions I answered were on User/Kernel threads, implementing fork() from first principles, some mutual exclusion questions, spin locks over semaphores and such for the lower level concurrency section.

Discussion piece for System calls, device drivers and then some file system questions and Amdahls Law stuff.

All in all it was a rather decent exam.

Right. Personal stuff.

New house, with FLATMATES. Makes such a difference not coming home to an empty cold flat everyday. There are challengers for Xbox supremacy. I like living here.

Stuck in exam period however, with exams Wednesday and Friday and the following Monday. Cram time.

There is going to be such a weekend after this that Lancaster will not know what hits it.

:D

Later