I’m finally done! Today I had my final dissertation, maybe a little too short (we only had 20′ for the presentation, plus 10′ for the questions) but at the end I was satisfied… Slides are available here.
For those who wonder why there are more slides after the end: well, I was keeping them to help me answer some possible questions… And the trick worked ;-)
Add comment April 7th, 2009
At last, I have submitted the final version of my PhD thesis!
Well, it will never be finished, as I guess I’ll never be completely satisfied with it. But it had to end sooner or later, and while I completely agree with my reviewer when he says that I should have delved much deeper into some parts (Sebastian, again thanks a lot for your feedback!), I have to move on and I hope that what I leave here will become useful for someone else’s work.
Here’s the thesis. Any feedback (public or private) is welcome, of course: there’s still so much to say – and I’d like to continue discussing about these topics with someone.
Add comment February 23rd, 2009
I’m not a PhD student anymore! Though, I’m not a PhD yet… :-)
Yes, this is how it works here: on Dec, 31st I have stopped being a PhD student, as my school officially ended that day. But I won’t be a PhD until after my dissertation which will take place on April, 7th!
This is a very weird feeling, being basically… uhm… “nothing”. Especially after I have been both a PhD student and an Intern last summer, splitting my time between two tasks: days working for HPL, nights working on my thesis. I still remember (and kinda miss) all those nights biking back home on El Camino, after a 14-hour session of work – tired and dizzy, I guess I risked my life sometimes :)
Btw, during this limbo, in which I still don’t know exactly what I am, I managed to find a couple of project to contribute to:
So, that’s it… Still nothing whose life spans longer than some months, but I believe a good start not to get bored after the end of my PhD school!
Add comment January 15th, 2009
At last, my HPL report has been officially approved for external publication! However, for some strange reason it still does not appear in the 2008 report list… Mah!
Btw, if you ever heard me speakin’ about my RDFMonkey creature this is the paper you have to read: you can access the page @HPL here, or download a copy directly from here. Enjoy! :)
Add comment December 8th, 2008
Paper has been accepted! Just quoting Giorgio Orsi’s post (who, in turn, is quoting the abstract):
“The Semantic Web has the ambitious goal of enabling complex autonomous applications to reason on a machine-processable version of the World Wide Web. This, however, would require a coordinated effort not easily achievable in practice. On the other hand, spontaneous communities, based on social tagging, recently achieved noticeable consensus and diffusion. The goal of the TagOnto system is to bridge between these two realities by automatically mapping (social) tags to more structured domain ontologies, thus, providing assistive, navigational features typical of the Semantic Web. These novel searching and navigational capabilities are complementary to more traditional search engine functionalities. The system, and its intuitive AJAX interface, are released and demonstrated on-line.”
Paper is available here.
Add comment September 14th, 2008
Cool talk, had a lot of useful feedbacks and suggestions! :-)
Add comment July 8th, 2008
I recently worked on some transversal project for our recently born PhDEI Association. It’s a PhD Alumni association for our department and we set up a very basic website (that, we hope, will grow with the contributions of other students), we are organizing a social/scientific event where everyone will have a chance to present his work and know others, and we had some talks presenting transversal topics that could be useful for all of us. I gave two talks:
Material is available on the PhDEI website, just by clicking on the two links above here.
Add comment June 15th, 2008
I had a paper accepted at SWUI 2008. Cool! I was really happy to see there actually exists someone interested in making the SW usable by people ;-). Both the presentations and the breakout session were very interesting, so the workshop was well worth the trip. Here are my talk slides:
Add comment April 20th, 2008
Just a little update on what’s goin’ on:
Add comment January 31st, 2008
Yes, I know, I should update this website more often. But I’ve been quite busy lately with… erm… stuff :-)
What did I do?
Well, of course there is something else, but I won’t write everything in just one post, right? ;-)
2 comments November 4th, 2007
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