Thoughts 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.

... a turn of page

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:31:19 +0000

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:

"Trying" to Get Things Done

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:14:34 +0100

Disclaimer: This post started as a comment to a post in one my friends blog.

In the past I’ve tried the Get Things Done (GTD) methodology and quickly dropped it. I found that by focusing in a single task I was missing important deadlines. Furthermore it became obvious to me that my list was growing and not shrinking. On the other hand, I do find it important to properly manage my time.

Thesis defense

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:04:08 +0000

Today was a very important day, as I finally defended my Phd Thesis under the title “Resource Optimizations in Broadcast enabled Networks”.

I was probably a bit nervous as the defense was about the start, as shown in the above picture. The defense started with a 30 min delay, as one my jury member was held in traffic. But in 2h30m time I would be out of the room with boosting confidence levels, as I had finally successfully completed one my most important milestones.

Today I concluded a path, which started 5 years ago when I accepted the challenge of my supervisor to conduct research in an area that was then not very clear if it would become the next hit or flop in Telecom. Today we have very successful IPTV services and operators that cover several technologies (which include broadcast) under a single service platform.

I don’t think my research work in the area is done, far from that, I still believe much needs to be done and changed in the Telecom industry in order to survive in this century without becoming a fossil. But I leave all my new ideas to projects to come :)

People attending a conference

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:03:04 +0000

This is something that came up during a talk in my research group, which I would like to share, in order to check if someone agrees:

It’s true that I haven’t attended a conference in a while. And my main opinion is that they are mostly not worthy the travel expenses… but that will be a different post!

Either way here is my caustic view of the 3 kinds of people attending a Science Conference nowdays:

European Election 2009

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:17:37 +0100

European Elections are to be help during the these days around all europe, and a major abstention is unfortunately expected. Most people invoke the fact that they are tired of politicians, and that they can do nothing about it.

In my view they are wrong since politicians only exist due to us, the people who elect them. It is us that mold the profile of the politicians, being the vote our only truly democratic tool. Regardless of our political view it is important to vote and to express our opinions on how society should be governed by choosing a party.

QXZhbGlhw6fDtWVz

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?

Mais do mesmo

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:50:34 +0000

"Era só para avisar que o Obama ganhou as eleições nos USA" Anónimo in "repetições até ao expoente máximo da loucura"

Com esta acho que bateram os floods de posts aquando dos lançamentos da Apple…

Estará a blogosfera portuguesa a tornar-se uma enorme redundância?

Apple TV price

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:40:12 +0000

Would someone please explain to me the rational (because I believe there is one) behind the fact that the Apple TV is the ONLY product in Apple Store whose price in euros in actually higher (50%) then in dollar albeit the weak dollar ? Check it your selves: http://store.apple.com/us http://store.apple.com/pt

The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to Me

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:19:56 +0100

This music has been playing in a loop in my head for more then a month now…

Where is the symbian store?

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:44:22 +0100

So I’ve had a Nokia E51 for less then a week, and all I can say is:

“Where is the symbian store ?” Compared to the Apple Store where I can get tons of applications for my iPod Touch, or the recently announced store announced by google for TMobile’s G1 Phone announced today, the symbian platform definitely lacks a centralized gathering point for all the software available out there.

For a newcomer such as myself, the task of find applications that fit our needs is too high when compared with the competition, and I don’t think of my self as a tech savvy person…

Google Chrome

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:15:18 +0100

disclaimer: as with everyone else’s post this post does not add a dime to what has already been said by the right people (Google staff). Instead it will focus on the unanswered questions.

What is the need for yet another browser ? It’s an open source browser, there are already several good open source browsers such as Firefox.

Great, it has several new features, but why weren’t they included to existing open-source projects ?

Ethics

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:36:47 +0100

Today I was driven to an article on time.com about wifi thieves. Point being on the ethics of using someone else’s wifi network.

I shall not make any comment on the subject, but instead leave you with some food for your mind:

“How many times have you stolen network connectivity, while feeling morally guilty?”

Again:

“How many times have you felt the same while stealing power from nearby power-plugs?”

Telecom API's

Mon, 12 May 2008 16:17:43 +0100

The Telecom Operators that relied in voice services are dead. And today’s operators fight for their own existence in a world dominated by the Web 2.0 where services can be created, combined in matter of day’s if not hours by limited resources teams. This new playground poses several challenges to telecom forums that have in the last years devised several API’s for enabling developers to plug in to their network. The following table has the particularity of synthesizing what’s going on.

Real cost of content

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:04:28 +0000

In the last decade, tech evangelist praised the value of “Content” as the real value in todays and future technological society.

The truth couldn’t be any further from those predictions.

The value of music has dropped to such levels that caused an unprecedented crisis in the Industry. Today any musician can afford to produce it’s own album and distribute it over the internet thanks to it’s personal computer equiped with pro-consumer hardware/software. The Artic Monkeys were one of such cases. The music industry realized this paradigm too late, and is now facing the consequences (decreased revenues, and artists breaking their contracts and going independent).

free time VS talent

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 01:35:43 +0000

NoComments, the strip speaks for it self…

credits: as seen in Maracujá

Foo Fighters - The Pretender

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:28:08 +0100

Great single for a great album!

Which Programming Language are You?

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:47:28 +0100

Guess what… I’ve programmed Prolog in the past, but never thought of my self as “Prolog”

Law

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:07:08 +0000

Are laws made to defend or attack people?

no comments……

Life without google

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:46:56 +0000

What to do ?

dgomes@#######:~$ traceroute www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 66.249.93.99
traceroute to www.l.google.com (66.249.93.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1 gtav.it.pt (193.136.93.1) 1.158 ms 1.074 ms 1.458 ms
 2 fw1.core.ua.pt (193.136.86.222) 0.988 ms 1.690 ms 2.290 ms
 3 cic-b06-sw01-12g.core.ua.pt (193.137.173.254) 7.445 ms 5.479 ms 6.572 ms
 4 Router2.Porto.fccn.pt (193.136.1.193) 3.262 ms 3.237 ms 2.133 ms
 5 Router3.10GE.Lisboa.fccn.pt (193.136.1.221) 7.222 ms 6.882 ms 10.265 ms
 6 ROUTER1.GE.Lisboa.fccn.pt (193.137.0.30) 13.651 ms 19.864 ms 17.119 ms
 7 fccn.rt1.lis.pt.geant2.net (62.40.124.185) 11.072 ms 10.535 ms 10.470 ms
 8 so-2-1-0.rt1.lon.uk.geant2.net (62.40.112.146) 41.985 ms 129.115 ms 35.385 ms
 9 ldn-b2-pos4-0.telia.net (213.248.75.109) 32.387 ms 33.714 ms 38.874 ms
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State of mind

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:50:50 +0000

“I’m an idealist without illusions.”

*John F. Kennedy *

Mediocracy

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:09:22 +0000

Mediocracy is a disease

Portugal is under an epidemic