It is time for me to start to update this blog and push out some of my writings etc. As I look at what is here, it is hard to believe that I have left the actual Blog section languish for 6 years. I have been updating my Publications but not much else. I am…
Passion Planner
I really like the look of this planner. I am now thinking that 2015 might just be the time to move back to a paper planner.
Project 3.01 in the CRCSI
It is more than a year ago now that I started working with the CRCSI on the Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) program, also known as Program 3. The mandate given to the newly appointed science director and myself, the research fellow, was quite straight forward: “Produce a draft research strategy within 6 months, followed by a…
Time to Update the Publications
Today was the day, it was time to update my publications listing with the publications from the past couple of years. So they are all there now and ready to go.
Eye Tracking
Tracking the human eye is a fascinating science. Recently I was one of the supervisors of an Honours student in an eye tracking study. From the thesis we published a paper with the results. This paper is now available under the Publications section.
The actual thesis: A Software Inspection Methodology for Cognitive Improvement in Software Engineering
So here it is. Four years in the making and it is now available. If you are suffering from insomnia one evening and need something that will put you straight to sleep here it is. In full and unabridged attached to this past is my final PhD thesis. The Abstract This thesis examines software inspections…
Distinguishing the Virtual World from the Real World…
In a Rolling Stone magazine on November 7, 2007 William Gibson stated: “One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real.” I find this to be a very helpful statement as of late I have begun to hear the changing of terminology. In the…
It is finally over
On February 12, 2010, I submitted my PhD thesis for examination. Something that was supposed to be completed back in September 2009, well that is at least when I thought it would be done finally came to an end on that Friday in February. Almost 4 years of my life was summed up on just…
What really has changed
While reading the Report on a conference sponsored by the NATO SCIENCE COMMITTEE Garmisch, Germany, 7th to 11th October 1968, I was amazed to read the opening comments as to the motivation behind the conference: “One of the major motivations for the organizing of the conference was an awareness of the rapidly increasing importance of…