Travel on Diogo Gomes

C-Cast Project Results

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:09:30 +0100

Well it’s been more than a year since the last time I talked about projects I’m working in.

But here I am, reporting on the conclusion of C-Cast.

Last week I was in Florence, Italy (so far the city I most enjoyed in Italy) in the Future Network & Mobile Summit, during which we presented C-Cast publicly through a workshop and demonstration booth. In the days preceding the conference, we were audited by the European Commission with a final result of “Good to excellent progress (the project has fully achieved its objectives and technical goals for the period and has even exceeded expectations).”, plus we were considered the best “run up demo” in the conference.

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:

@Torino, Italy

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:39:20 +0000

Just getting back from a trip to Torino, Italy where I attended C-Cast project meeting.

It was a very short trip since back at the lab we are preparing Daidalos final Audit after 5 years of producing research and Inovation. Next weeks will be very stressfull as a demo needs to be fine tuned before the expert auditors evaluate the project.

Brussels, Belgium

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:57:29 +0100

Just got back from brussels where I attended the final review of the C-Mobile project.

It was not my first time in brussels, nonetheless it was the first time I enjoyed the traditional “moules et frites”. Very nice I must say soo :)

@Berlin, Germany

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:10:11 +0000

Berlin nights 1, originally uploaded by eschwagerus.

After more then a week of "blog silence" I'm back from Berlin, where C-Mobile's meeting took place.

During this meeting we worked in the integration of our Demonstrator which is composed of OpenIMS, several Service Enablers built on top of Sailfin and a very basic UE built on top of the Nokia N800 platform (MAEMO).

It was more then a week of round the clock coding and hacking, so not much time was left to walk the city besides the nights. I must say that I enjoy Germany very much, specially during the xmas time, due to the local “Christmas Markets” and all the season spirit which IMHO is much more experienced in the northern European countries.

@Nurenberg, Germany

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:40:37 +0100

Here I am, back to Germany for a project meeting (C-Mobile).

I actually enjoy coming to Germany, it’s a very modern country with lots of job opportunities. I enjoy the german outdoors, its forests and mountains, and of course their great beer! What I do not like is the food… specially the next dish:

It’s an over-rated pig roast, with this awful bread/potato ball….

In the last 48h I’ve eated this dish 3x…. 1st was my choice (dope!), 2nd was the social event (no options available) and today for lunch (again no choice…)

@Athens, Greece

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:52:10 +0100

This week I’m attending PIMRC'07 where I’ll be presenting a paper entitled IP Multicast Dynamic Mapping in Heterogeneous Environments (I’ll post the URL when the paper becomes available at IEEExplorer)

I had never been to greece before, but I must say to you, their taxi drivers are the most insane I’ve ever met. I was comming from the Airport at 12.30AM at more then 150km cutting through lanes while listening to the driver, that shouted (literally) to my ears how bad his life was, and how much the € made it worst… Besides this, the weather is really nice (warm) and the conference although a bit side track to my main interests is being really interesting.