Archive for the ‘Computer Science’ Category

My Master Thesis

I have now started on my second year as a master student at the Univeristy of Tromsø. The program is built up like this: first year = 6×10 point courses, second, and last year, one large 60 points master thesis. I am currently working on this “enormous and scary” thesis. The thesis is a small [...]

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 [...]

Back to school after Christmas celebration

Today was the first day at school after the holidays. This is my second semester, first year, on my Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of Tromsø, Norway. This semester I’m attending three classes; Advanced Distributed Systems, Advanced Database Systems and Middleware. I think it’s going to be much harder this semester. People [...]