Research Update
Since my supervisor was recently appointed to a professorship, I changed universities this month. Due to this change I updated my research page, now including my current research.
Since my supervisor was recently appointed to a professorship, I changed universities this month. Due to this change I updated my research page, now including my current research.
Yesterday, I received the deeply sad message that Prof. Karen Spärck Jones died in the age of 71. During last year’s Microsoft Research Summer School she was one of the judges members evaluating the student’s posters – such as mine. The critics have been quite hard but very effective, clearly telling what was missing and what has to be improved. One of the few valuable reviews.
Some of her artwork can be seen in the public area at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Roger Needham Building. Whenever you attend a talk or lecture there, you should have a look…
Today, I found an online resource providing some tips and information how a research poster might look like. I have seen a lot of bad ones and do do not consider mine as perfect yet. So maybe this information does help in improving the research posters…
For those writing papers I still recommend Simon Peyton Jones’ How to write a good research paper”.
A while ago Microsoft release the Consolas Font for Visual Studio 2005. I haven’t thought of it since installed the first time until I set up my machine during the last days. There is a significant difference while using the Consolas font (all characters the same width, optimized for ClearType and quite a bit smaller than the old typewriters). The pictures shows a direct comparison of both fonts…