been to David’s House.

So glad to listen to David playing piano.

Good luck, man! 

tried to validate the simulation result. still not very successful.

did some work for the front end design for software engineering project.

gym

went to play pool with some International students.

software engineering midterm test.

i decided to participate the 

CiberMouse@RTSS2006

talked with Rong about the simulation result and survey topic.

i didn’t prepare my result well. i need to break down the tasks to small ones and achieve one everyday.

i’ll do survey in wireless mesh network. Welcome discussion!

coding

prepare for OS midterm 1. 

went to recreation center to find my card.

 I found it!!

i lost it in the swimming pool. and someone has picked it up…

 …

Went shopping with Flow, Ismail and Victoria.

information from https://course.ie.cuhk.edu.hk/~ieg5120/project.htm and some of my own ideas:

Survey criteria
{
    Top journal/conference paper
    {
        Mobicom/hoc
        ICNP
        Infocom
        anything else?
    }
    Industry
    {
        support/application for standard
        product
    }
}

Goals and questions:
{
(a) clearly define the research idea/problem
(b) give an overview of the key papers on that topic and their findings
(c) critique existing work,
(d) list open problems and challenges ahead.
(e) analysis application potential
(f) list active figures, research groups, commnities, companies in this domin and their relation.
(g) If the area is worth doing, come up with a plan to follow the lastest progress.
(h) List collegues in this area that collaborate with.

What are the applications?  
What are the main results?  
Are the main results applicable to only very specific applications or more generally applicable?

What are the fundumantal problems in this area? Do you think they are important?
What are the theorotical problems in this area? What are their implifications, say, can they be used to attack a broader range of problems?
What are the system problems in this area? Are those technologies up-to-date or do they have a bright future?
Are there any more important problems behind the problems we are attacking in this area?
Status of current reseach. Is it at the point of breaking through or in the blind trials?
}



We may need some tools for basic information gathering and filtering. We have Google and online citation databases. But is there some information assistant software for this?
Maybe we can write one, if necessary:)

Where to find information?
{
    Text:
    {
        somebody else’s survey papers?
        paper, talk, spec, book
    }
    Industry
    {
        website of companies;
        business website;
        industry website;
        stock website?
    }
}

OS programming assignment.

A little depressed. The work is done too slowly, maybe.

Played basketball with Xiaoting. Swimming. But…

I left the cougarOne card in the recreation center!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I began to doubt if I carried it in my pocket and jumped into the water…

SW project working log, SW mid-term preparation…

Investigating survey topics. Reviewing materials from Jerry. Le.

A lot of my classmates are doing survey work all over the world. We can do that together!

So so strange.

You’ve deleted and blocked somebody from msn list so many times.

Still it keeps coming back in your list.

Well…

course, assignment…

had 3 exciting talks via IM with people at Beijing, Hongkong and Houston. Cool.

Met a man in front the library who is fond of classic music. He encouraged me to listen to the music course here.

Mmm…

Made my first team leader speech in English… OK, my software engineering team now has a name: Team 3!

Cunqing arrived. A post doc from HKCU. At lunch he said business is politics. Could be true.

Investigating mesh network.

“I’m very sorry to tell you that I failed to generate the result.”

“Oh. That’s all right.”

…

Zack and Naomi had their baby girl. I went to the hospital with Sara and an Indian girl. Under Sara’s guidiance, I bought some flowers. This is the first time I gave flowers to a girl… And the first time to see a new born baby, too.

Zack should be a good father. When am I going to have a baby? It seems so far away from me that it’s unthinkable…

Coding.

Rong has a meeting tommorrow about my line of work.

Late into the night, I realized that I’ve missed to pursue what a real programmer is for a long time. Also, what a problem solver is?

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/18/917/#comments: darkblue : seems u r busy and happy:) — Busy? yes. Happy? depends.

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/12/assignments-and-tests-before-oct4/ Da: The stuff seems interesting! — I’m trying to make them so!

softare engineering sample project. code…

Spent hours in the gym. reviewed OS course with Jack.

still reading the paper. prepared the ppt an hour before the presentation. went to Sara’s birthday party. a great night. It must be a great experience to have people for Russia, Germany, Morocco, Turkey, Italy, Argentina , China, Korean and the U.S. to sing the birthday song for you using their own language.

And I’ve got an amazing discovery: there is the game similar to the “killer” one in China in many other countries. In U.S. it’s called Mafia, and there is other versions of it in Germany and Russia. Maybe I should further investigate if the Africans play this game.

reading the paper for the presentation. I need a lot more training in reading papers. went to career fair with my cowboy hat. The only institution that was interested in me was the Navy. paper… stayed at the lab again. I really needn’t do that. Got to manage my time more efficiently.

an other project team discussion. coding…. Well, finally I found what the problem is.

code discussion with Rong. We’re both interested in the possibility of a universal wireless self-administrion network protocal. assigment

OS: test#1, Thursday, September 21.

Software Engineering short essay: Battle of Somme, information radiation

Automata assignment2 Due Sep.27 { 2.5.2(a)+/sigmacap(p,a)+/sigmacap(q,a)+/sigma_cap(r,a) 2.5.3(b), 2.5.3(c) 3.1.1(b), 3.1.2(b), 3.2.4(c) }

OS assignment1: Process Scheduling due on September 28, 2006 at 11:59:59 PM.

Software Engineering Initial Report Due: Oct. 4th

Automata test#1, Oct.4 Wed. { pre-stapled stack of 5 pages use pen, not pencil nor eraser. close book }

Code & Paper.

Attended Wayne Wolf’s seminar about smart camera

meeting of the SE group

I am again the team leader. Cool.

assignments

reading paper

coding

went to shopping with Tayo again. A lot thanks to him!!

The meeting of software engineering group this morning was canceled for “it was raining”. I really don’t quite understand.

However, there were still 4 of us who came: Brandon, Pranitha, Padmaja and me. Finally we decided to use C#, Visual Studio, and agreed on Srikant’s idea. Also we think it OK to meet from 5p.m. to 6p.m. every Monday and Wednesday, which is, before the software engineering class.

Assignments…

I went to the stadium to watch an American football game. Also I saw cheer leaders for the first time. I like this game.

code

proof reading

It seems that i didn’t help much in Rong’s paper. I’ve got to improve myself a lot. And also we need better communication.

Finally i played real basketball with the black guys:)

In order to encourage comments, I will reply to them in specail posts

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/05/95/

to Da:

Absolutely. We always need the trade off:)

http://songwei.blogsome.com/2006/09/05/photoes-from-houston-tour/#comments

To Jinzi:

It’s due to the camera…

Applied for SSN.

Enjoyed free food in the departmental picnic. Too full…

Met Jack who is interested in grid computing.

Talked with Cheng, Albert about real-time system.

Paris told me about his research in VOD. But again I didn’t hear him clearly…

A talk white told me about his research in fault tolerance.

And a freshman said to me that he is interested in large web application development

OK, proof-reading Rong’s paper…

got up at noon…

course

code

Thanks a lot to Houston Bridge People!

On the Top: water fall:

In front of the water wall:

With Pap in front of Tokyo center

Waiting for prize time

Police memorial Park

Again with Pap

Cougar!

More Cougars! at Minute Maid Park. This is the United Nation in UH. What a pity that I missed this shoot.

talked with Dr. Rong about what should I do in this year.

She proposed that I do some follow up work this semester, and select a top to do some survey. Then I can choose a direction and start to prepare for that from next semester.

I agreed with her. And since I found myself lacking in the theory background I proposed that I’ll try to start the survey from both ways of application and theories this semester. I hope I could do that and I believe that’s helpful.

The other idea of mine is to combine academy study with industry experience. But Rong doesn’t quite agree with me on this, at least in my first years in the PHD program. She doesn’t intern at next summer a good idea. Well, maybe she’s right. But that’s one year after. We can decide that later. I’ll focus on learning to do research in this semester, and the following one as well.

code, paper

finally had a sleep in the dorm.

I’ve slept in the lab for 2 days…

code, paper, cluster account slept in the lab. I’ve bought a wonderful sleeping cell:)

code, latex

enjoyed free food at the Friendship House International BBQ

met some new friends

at here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=zh-CN&q=4394+Varsity+Lane+Houston&ie=UTF8&z=15&om=1

Dr. Rong gave us a presentation of the her vision of the research of our group.

signed up the membership at the animation club. so surprising that a bunch of Amercians got together to watch GTO TV and talk about Sailor Moon…

went to Minute Maid Park to watch a baseball game.

Oh, god. I haven’t written blogs for a week? I’ve been too busy, and too lazy:)

course and code today.

I met a girl in the dining hall named Shrine. She told me something about a animation group at UC. Sounds interesting.