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
As promised, here I am reporting back on Project IST-Daidalos which had it’s final audit in the beginning of the month.
First things first, here is the video of the project describing what the project is about:
On a personal note I would like to say that I’ve been involved in this project for as long as I’ve started my research career, which is just a bit over 5 years ago. This project enabled me to meet people in most parts of Europe, to know their way of doing research and of course to learn from them and with them. Strangely enough: I was getting sick of this project
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.
This marvelous post : Trust_Me,_I’m_A_Doctor, made me realize how much of this nonsense I sometimes listen from people (regardless of what their profession his).
Everyone is an electrician, a plumber or a mechanic, then why do we need those people? Of course, its for those times that we realize we are not an electrician, a plumber or a mechanic…
If it is that simple for people to realize their limitations and the added-value of some professions, why is it so difficult to understand that by owning a computer you don’t auto magically become a Computer Engineer/Scientist?
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