I won an award today!

[Naira]

There I was, feeling miserable and really really tired after having spent more than 8 hours working on a paper of mine, wondering why I keep enjoying this PhD thing, since all I ever seem to do is either writing papers or writing code for my papers (besides working full time, that is)...

And then, I got an e-mail that I won a Best Paper Award in one of the top two conferences in my field!!!

I felt great! Couldn't keep the smile of my face for hours.

So, (virtual) drinks are on me!

 

[Roger Wilco]

Congratulations.

 

[auntiehill]

Virtual high-five!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Groovy! Congratulations.

Can you tell us what the paper was about?

 

[Misfit Toy]

Woohoo!!

 

[Naira]

Thanks guys!

Can you tell us what the paper was about?

It is roughly about increasing the quality of search results returned to users by looking at properties of the whole set of retrieved results rather than each result on its own (e.g., getting back 10 very good results that are all almost identical to each other is no good).

 

[YJAGG]

sweet! what is your Doctrate in ?

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Congratulations!!! What are your plans after you finished your studies? Will you be able to get a job in Greece? The job market there is pretty bad atm

 

[propita]

Thanks guys!

Can you tell us what the paper was about?

It is roughly about increasing the quality of search results returned to users by looking at properties of the whole set of retrieved results rather than each result on its own (e.g., getting back 10 very good results that are all almost identical to each other is no good).

First, congratulations! How wonderful to have your work recognized as excellent!

So content is compared and duplicates are noted or tossed?

Would this be like when a source passage is cited or quoted, and the search results show each cite/quote, which is repetitive?

 

[RJDiogenes]

Thanks guys!

Can you tell us what the paper was about?

It is roughly about increasing the quality of search results returned to users by looking at properties of the whole set of retrieved results rather than each result on its own (e.g., getting back 10 very good results that are all almost identical to each other is no good).

You're collapsing the wave function of a Google search? Awesome.

 

[Sephiroth]

was it a Major Award?

 

[JarodRussell]

There I was, feeling miserable and really really tired after having spent more than 8 hours working on a paper of mine, wondering why I keep enjoying this PhD thing, since all I ever seem to do is either writing papers or writing code for my papers (besides working full time, that is)...

And then, I got an e-mail that I won a Best Paper Award in one of the top two conferences in my field!!!

I felt great! Couldn't keep the smile of my face for hours.

So, (virtual) drinks are on me!

So I guess you went past the impossible. To the place where the possible and the impossible meet to become... possimpible.

 

[YJAGG]

was it a Major Award?

It' fragille must be Italian

 

[Naira]

sweet! what is your Doctrate in ?

Computer Science.

Congratulations!!! What are your plans after you finished your studies? Will you be able to get a job in Greece? The job market there is pretty bad atm

I already have an interesting full time job. I have a couple of very interesting offers from abroad but I don't want to move to another country unless I really have to. My plans at the moment depend on a number of different factors, we'll see how it goes.

So content is compared and duplicates are noted or tossed?

Would this be like when a source passage is cited or quoted, and the search results show each cite/quote, which is repetitive?

Sorf of, but it goes a bit further than duplicate elimination.

was it a Major Award?

Do you mean a big award in general or is a "Major Award" some specific type of award? In case you meant the first one, it is a pretty good award in my field, that's why I am so happy about it.

 

[publiusr]

Good job! Congrats in spades.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Congrats!