Panlab

v00# works better when importing xls from connex to fast, and the
build-in function round(), or roundup() or rounddown() based on
preference, in excel or openoffice can work around the problem and
create a new column satisfying fast. of course, it’s better either
connex or fast has such capabilities embedded. hih

A prof == 200k/year?!

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/imperial-college-professor-stefan-grimm-was-given-grant-income-target/2017369.article

certainly admins care a lot—that’s why we were asked to see the list 
even before it was released 😉 we are back in 200!

also the ups/downs in canada, if that matters: 
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/university-ranking/article20874276/

“now we have made it; next is how to keep it” or more importantly how we 
are ranked in engineering/cs/systems/networking

while on their website, happen to see they mean to increase the mil-rate
from 5 to 7.5, or 0.5% to 0.75% of whatever the base is. cheers

btw, are students informed they will be taught by whoever the university
indeed pays to teach them before they apply the university and pay the
tuition? if yes, nothing to complain; otherwise, a possible bbb case?

fair play: universities, profs, and students, or whoever in the society

typo for dtb a102?

http://www.uvicfa.ca/special-view/meetings/

“UVic Faculty Association reminds members that we will holding an Ordinary
General Meeting on September 15, 2014 from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the
David Turpin Building in Room A102.”

hope uvicfa can fix the typo through the mailing list as uvfac-l is
restricted and probably will decline this kind reminder 😉 cheers

as announced, this friday (dec 6) we will have the term project demo and
presentations for csc466/579, from 9:30am in ecs660. each project/team has
20 minutes in total, including a 15 minutes presentation (demo included),
3 minutes q&a, and 2 minutes turnaround&buffer. ecs660 will be open around
9am, so please take the time to test your laptop vga output to the data
projector, and also network connectivity if needed. for a 15 minutes talk,
it’s about 15 slides (or fewer if there’s demo, either live or recorded).
for a team project, all team members shall present and attend to q&a for
evaluation purposes. everyone will also receive an evaluation sheet to
provide further feedback to the projects and demo of other teams

the demo/presentation agenda is listed as below. please be sharp on time

session 1 (09:30-10:50): p2p & apps

09:30 Ian: P2P version control

09:50 Alastair&Simon&Alexander: serverless P2P docs

10:10 Aminah: P2P collaborative forum

10:30 Heidar: mesh networked IRCd

session 2 (11:00-12:20): p2p & multimedia

11:00 Junnan&Ali: Media Streaming Network System

11:20 Mark: storm gaming

11:40 Lucas: executable Physics in cloud (EPIC)

12:00 Jelle: jam buddy

session 3 (12:30-13:10): p2p & security

12:30 Gabriel&Abdulaziz: clearing the air in cloud security

12:50 Min&Evian&Sam: distributed trust network

cookie/drink will be provided. the session is open to the public. looking
forward to an exciting series of demo/presentations. cheers

thanks a lot for the coordination and update. also most of our
research funding (even that from nserc) should have indirect cost or
overhead directly sent to or withheld by the university, shared between
the vpr and dean’s offices. we probably can also ask for an allocation
from this reserve to support our technical staff for research purposes.
thanks again