Monthly Archives: September 2015

Pluses and minuses: Anthony (2008); sabbatical leave (2012, delayed due to dept teaching shortage and student oral exams); Angela (2013); vitreous detachment (2015)

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Inputs: weekly group and individual meetings; ~30k email sent; ~80k internal messages exchanged (contributed about 1/3 ;-) or ~150mb gzipped; ~20k paper reading, discussion and revision files; ~100 wiki pages (~1k edits contributed); ~700mb cvs repository, gzipped—enough for a big data study on research methods

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So far five phd dissertations (two co-supervised) and seven masters (one co-supervised) theses defended, and one postdoc (co-supervised) and four visiting profs finished. Together they published 60+ papers, some at venues first time having uvic student authors, traveled 40+ times to 10+ countries on five continents, and received 40+ internal and external awards/grants ;-)

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Two mitacs globalink students from india and china this summer, plus six more in previous years

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When we become parents, we start to know that we should have been better kids; when we become teachers, we start to know that we should have been better students—thanks to all teachers and parents!

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Also for undergrad students: bcnet broadband innovation challenge first place and honorable mentions; acm icpc third place in pacific northwest region (with heavy weights such as ubc, sfu, washington, oregon, berkeley, stanford, etc ;-); ieee extreme online programming competition, ranked third in canada; …

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Internationalization is a priority, according to the current provost and president (also the provost ten years ago—still looks younger than me—it’s genetics, he says ;-) recommended them to blog on uvic oac

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Some useful classroom tools: a0 (introduce yourself to your classmates); course reps (anonymize, aggregate and amplify); ta as part of the teaching team (who did not turn in a1 ;-)

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Directed studies for undergrad students. Together with mitacs globalink, nserc usra and uvic jcura undergrads, they went for grad studies at waterloo, ut austin, cuhk, eurocom, duke, uvic, ubc, etc (some multiple students ;-)

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Started at the same place ten years ago. So far about 1k students taught in 7 regular courses offered 28 times (except one year sabbatical), plus 13 directed studies, with new lecture notes and lab manual developed (one at sigcse)

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