Education on Diogo Gomes

Two months at CMU

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:31:00 +0000

In a time when Portugal is facing a severe recession, with several country men moving abroad to greener pastures link, I decided to endeavor myself on the pros and cons of living abroad even thought for a very brief period of time. Under the scope of the CMU-Portugal program, I spent July and August in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. During this time I was a visiting professor at the ECE department at Carnegie Melon University and got the chance to be part of the research activities taking place at the Parallel Data Lab.

Open Source Software in an Academic Environment

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 14:18:00 +0100

For long I’ve been an evangelist of OSS in the University of Aveiro. First through my involvement in the foundation of GLUA and more recently through CodeUA. In the last 7 years I’ve participated in several EU projects in which I’ve always promoted the use of OSS and the release of code developed in the projects through OSS licenses.

Today I was able to go a step further, since I was invited to do be part of a discussion panel at the Future Networks 6th FP7 Concertation Plenary Meeting where the subject was Open Source & Research. In this panel I was representing the Academic view of OSS. The presentation is available at:

Colocações no Ensino Superior 2010

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:54:42 +0000

Há 2 anos publicava sobre as médias de entrada no ensino superior. De lá para cá as coisas evoluíram (não necessariamente para melhor, pois o nível de preparação dos caloiros é cada vez mais baixo). A Univ. Aveiro continua com excelentes niveis de colocação aos quais o DETI não se encontra alheio com 100% de vagas preenchidas já na 1ª fase.

Se bem que o número de candidatos aparenta ter estabilizado de acordo com o gráfico:

Universidade de Aveiro Achievements in Robotics

Tue, 12 May 2009 20:19:06 +0000

I would like to use this post to public congratulate the University of Aveiro Teams involved in last weeks “Festival Nacional de Robótica” held at IPCB.

After winning last years Robocup, CAMBADA just revalidated the national title (third championship on a row) for middle size robots. As for Autonomic Driving the DEM took the victory with ATLAS-2008 and ATLAS-MV in the first 2 places with a 4th place going to DETI’s ROTA.

These achievements are not random, and are a direct result of effort put into these projects by both students and professors, and of the quality of the education and research done in the University of Aveiro.

Master of Science in Information Networking

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:40:39 +0000

Just to let everyone know that MSIN (Master of Science in Information Networking) program by Univ. Aveiro and Carnegie Mellon University, is accepting applications. Please note that although the program is very expensive there are scholarships. As a hint for people looking for jobs: ALL of our students have obtained stable positions in major Portuguese Telecom Operators in the end of the program. Here is some institutional information:

MSIN is a breakthrough in post-graduate technical education, since it combines technical knowledge and management entrepreneurship with professional solutions.
The Aveiro MSIN program builds upon student’s technical backgrounds to give a broadened perspective and tactical expertise required to achieve leadership in the quickly developing fields of information technology and networking. Coursework takes place at the University of Aveiro and uses a hybrid distributed education format that combines locally taught courses with courses delivered from Carnegie Mellon University via interactive video conferencing technologies.

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Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:55:50 +0000

Flame: ON

E se deixássemos de falar da avaliação dos professores e começássemos a falar sobre avaliação dos alunos?

Colocações no Ensino Superior - 2008

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:59:58 +0100

O dia de hoje fica marcado pela publicação das colocações no Ensino Superior no concurso de 2008.

Se bem que os media se centrem nos cursos socialmente mais interessantes como Medicina, Arquitectura e Direito; o meu post pretende antes analisar a área das Engenharias Informática e Electrotecnica.

Este ano é marcado por médias de acesso mais elevadas (ou serão?) que nos anos anteriores, faço aqui um apanhado das principais escolas do país na área que mais me diz respeito:

Tech advices

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:05:24 +0100

Today I was shopping in an unnamed large electronics store when I inadvertedly overeard a talk between the clerk and a costumer trying to buy a network solution for his house. The clerk pointed out a linksys N router as a way for the costumer to get good coverage in all his house without questioning the costumer whether his laptop had 802.11n or not, or if his ISP equipment had an Ethernet interface or not…

Pos-graduate program between Universidade de Aveiro and Carnegie Mellon University

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:17:58 +0000

The University of Aveiro - Portugal in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University - USA is teaming up to offer a Professional Master in Information Networking (MSIN) in Portugal.

The Aveiro MSIN program builds upon students technical backgrounds to give them the broadened perspective and tactical expertise required to become leaders in the quickly developing field of information technology and information networking. Coursework takes place at the University of Aveiro and uses a hybrid distributed education format that combines locally taught courses with courses taught from Carnegie Mellon via video-conferencing technologies. The Program is a dual degree program, which allows the student to have a post-graduate diploma in Europe and a Professional Master degree in USA.

Grading Students Papers

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:15:26 +0000

My life in the past weeks…

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2nd Semester

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:56:00 +0000

This semester I’ll be teaching “Network Architectures” to 3rd and 4th year students (big mess thanks to the bologne process). This means that I’ve students sharing the same class with very different backgrounds and previous expertise in computer networks.

In addition I’ve got several students which I’ve known since my student years. And this confuses me the most, since it is cumbersome for both me and them. Should I treat them as friends (and have other students feeling that I treat my friends specially) or distance myself from them (and be an hypocrite). Tough call…

What's with Cisco and the Kusec?

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:20:55 +0000

This week my ARA (Advanced Networks class) lab students got the chance to work with some recent equipment acquired by the department. The equipment consists of several enterprise grade CISCO networks wireless units (Access Points and Network cards) that most of them will eventually deploy in their future careers, and have during these labs classes the chance to a have a first contact with. The curiosity here lies on the fact that Beacon Periods in CISCO equipments do not use “standard” time units.. they use something called Kusec. What ?! a Kilo Micro Second ? In my days (and guess wikipedia days…) Kilo meant 10³ and Micro meant 10^?6 which would mean 10^-3 or good old Milli. So where from does Kusec comes from? Kusec equals (according to CISCO) 1024 microseconds… hmmm shouldn’t it be then a Kibi Micro Second ? and therefore Kiusec ? And whats wrong with miliseconds ? All other vendors have the Beacon Periods configured in milliseconds…

Creating an electronic Curriculum Vitae

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:55:48 +0000

Any now and then, one ends up needing to provide a Curriculum Vitae AKA Résumé (CV).

Either for applying for a job or just to be used to assert your credentials (for example while running for project fundings), you always end up needing an updated CV.

So what do most people do ?

They keep a document of their idea of a CV
They keep a document formated using the “Europass standard”
They keep it online using services such as LinkedIn

Of course there are other options :)

Teaching Assistant

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:44:42 +0000

I’ve recently reach a position in DETI as a Teaching Assistant.

It will amongst other things be my first actual “job”, with pension plans and social security and an actual pay check instead of the schoolarship I used to receive from FCT.

But this also means I will from now on be spending a greater part of my time preparing classes, and of course teaching…It’s not that I don’t enjoy teaching (which I’ve learn to like in the past year or two) but the time it will consume will most probably mean that I’ll take longer to finnish my thesis :(

DISTCC + AVAHI

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:22:05 +0100

When considering a project involving a large number of source files, compilation time is always an issue. DistCC is in these cases a very good solution. From DistCC site:

distcc is a program to distribute builds of C, C++, Objective C or Objective C++ code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local build, is simple to install and use, and is usually much faster than a local compile

My problem was how to keep the **$DISTCC_HOSTS** variable updated, since computers in my lab never seam to be left alone (after all... this is a lab :) ).

My idea was therefore to use AVAHI and to come up with a simple unix pipe that would feed the $DISTCC_DIR/hosts file.

Using svn+ssh with RapidSVN

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:18:20 +0100

After spending some time searching, I realized that this might help someone else.

Not being able to properly replace MS Visio in neither a Linux or OS X environment, I’ve been stuck with MS Office and a Virtual Machine for this sole purpose in my Linux and OSX environments. I keep my machine very light, I only install MS Office (Word+Excel+Visio), Firefox & Thunderbird, Putty and RapidSVN. This enables me to quickly access and edit a document, either using a web repository (e.g. BSCW), e-mail or SVN (don’t ask why, but some people like to use SVN to share documents in binary format).

Keep Alive Post

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:27:32 +0000

Well, I haven’t been posting here lately, mostly because I’m too busy working and teaching (I’m currently teaching Java programming to EGI).