exam’s, Vacation, and papers
Its been a long time since I wrote something constructive on this blog now (again). I have been very very very busy reading up for the final exams. Today I had an oral exam in the course “Advanced Distributed Systems”, it went okay I guess. Talked about MapReduce, Google File System, Dryad, Oivos, and some other systems and concepts.
I’m going home to Mo i Rana 10th june after the “Advanced Database Systems” exam. I start working the 15th june at the National Library (Nasjonalbiblioteket) in my home town Mo i Rana. I don’t know what I’m going to do, but at least it’s some IT related stuff.
I have decided to “publish” the papers I have written this semester. You can find them in the list below with a short description. Enjoy. They are not that long.
- “Face Recognition” – The paper was written as the second mandatory assignment in the “Advanced Database Systems” course. The paper is a survey type of paper. It sums up the different techniques used for detecting and recognizing faces in images. It is a very interesting topic.
- “Supporting Mobility in Content-Based Publish/Subscribe Middleware” – This paper was written as the third mandatory assignment in the “Middleware” course. This paper is also a survey kind of paper. It sums up different techniques on how it is possible to support mobility in publish/subscribe system. Interesting read.
- “Optimizing Hadoop for the Cluster” – This paper was written as the second mandatory assignment in the “Advanced Distributed Systems” course. In this paper I describe how we can optimize Hadoop for its cluster. The experiments conducted shows that tweaking the default configuration gives two times smaller job-latency. Very interesting paper this as well.
So thats an update for now. Have a nice summer. I will try my best to write more posts during the “vacation”. So stay tuned.
Interesting stuff! Seems you’re having a few courses, which will qualify you for a job at MS/Fast after finishing your studies!;)
Any thoughts on the master assignment yet?
Yeah, it has been an interesting first year I must say. But it has been quite hard as well. I had basically no life for two months before the last exams.
Hopefully the master year will be better. Being able to focus on one thesis is going to be nice. Hehe, no I haven’t found a thesis yet. I got a few papers and information about a new project which is in the startup phase in Tromsø. It is a very big and interesting project about integrating personal data sources, sharing data and being able to get data based on context, for instance data based on your geographical location. I have actually not read that much about it yet. The master contract shouldn’t be signed until september, I think, so I’m quite relaxed about it right now.
Actually one of our professors is the Chief Scientist in Fast, he has given us alot of details on what they are working on and what Microsoft has been doing lately. Working for them would have been cool but you feel a bit small when you see what the Ph.D guys are working on.
How is the new job in Bodø? Would you consider it as a challenging job?
I can imagine taking a Master degree is though, but it will pay off! Having lectures from the Chief Scientist in Fast must be epic!:D
Well, regarding my new job, it takes some time to get into all the frameworks/libraries, and it is certainly a new experience to work with only Windows tools. I guess I will know in a few months if it is the right job for me!:)