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SatGarcia

  1. Time to rock this dissertation!
  2. Looks like they need Kremlin (kremlin.ucsd.edu) for android! ;) gigaom.com/mobile/quad-co…
  3. Check out the upcoming Dark Silicon Workshop (DaSi) darksilicon.ucsd.edu/2012/
  4. @harrisw use the force: rebuttals can work!
  5. Plane tickets to PDX booked. @splashcon here I come!
  6. Rebooting the CS Publication Process | October 2011 | Communications of the ACM: bit.ly/oFGIT6 via @AddThis
  7. It's not the official beginning of Fall until the CSE pinata gets destroyed. #ucsdrocks
  8. Finally got my #TA evals for Spring 2011. Having been 3 years since my last assignment, I was a bit worried. Luckily reviews were great!
  9. I get to serve as the Master TA for the CSE department this year. Yay!
  10. PLDI talk went well. OOPSLA paper was accepted. Had a blast in Seattle. It's been a good couple of weeks.
  11. Interesting keynot by Jeff Naughton that applies to more than just the database community - http://goo.gl/bMPtP
  12. operation "create the best #PLDI presentation ever" is in full effect!
  13. @dabacon the founder gave a talk here at UCSD and I was quite impressed. I plan on using it in a course over the summer.
  14. Got the final version blues. How can it be so much work to put together the final version of a paper?