On Services, 2.0 and 3D
This past week, in my graduate class we discussed “system integration and agreement at the semantics level”. My class is about “web services”, a subject which I have been covering in a variety of ways in the past two three years.
In one offering, I covered the languages and the technologies in great detail.
In [...]
I was interviewed as a “Senior Technical Woman” by the Anita Borg Institute and the content of this profile can be found at http://anitaborg.org/news/archive/senior-technical-woman-profile-eleni-stroulia-professor-and-nsercicore-industrial-research-chair-university-of-alberta/.
I did not want to post this entry, for many reasons.
I am embarrassed to admit that I am not a good teacher. I am terribly disappointed to be confronted with this failure, just after the “high” of the publicity around my City-of-Edmonton inspired project in my CMPUT course. I am completely frustrated by [...]
This past weekend I hosted the UCOSP code sprint at the University of Alberta. About 40 students and 7 project mentors came here for an intensive weekend-long session of software development.
UCOSP – the Undergraduate Capstone Open-Source Project – is a distributed software-engineering course that brings together undergraduate students across Canada (and sometimes North [...]
I have had two interesting (and rather intense) professional experiences recently, which made me say to myself a few times “the Devil is in the Details”. And I wanted to reflect (i.e., think aloud) upon these experiences and so I went and looked at Wikipedia where the expression comes from. And there, I found that [...]
It is the end of the Fall term. My final exam is tomorrow at 9 and after I have gone through the mad rush of marking them before Christmas and assigning grades, vacations will be here, which means one thing: I need to make up my graduate course next term!
I have taught this course [...]
This past week I had a very interesting discussion with a couple of colleagues on Facebook, of all places! Seeing you shrug in my mind’s eye, thinking “interesting discussion on Facebook… pleaease…“, let me just state for the record that 3055 words were exchanged among the 3-4 of us over the course of two days! [...]
