Greece holiday cum conference

Writing-up

Suddenly I have found myself here, a stage I've been waiting for, but, it's frightening to me, hopefully it will be over soon - writing-up.
I consider these materials useful, and they may be of help to you, however, they are not in any way the only materials available. Please use alternative materials if you think these couldn't help:

How to write a PhD Dissertation , by Prof. Joe Wolfe, School of Physics, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation, by S. Joseph Levine, Ph.D., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan USA.

A guide to PhD Research, by Prof. Sean Gong

Back from ICCSIS Conference

Just back from Athens, Greece, where the ICCSIS conference was held. Athens is a lovely place to be, extraordinarily rich in preserved culture, history and ethics. We visited the Acropolis, Museums, Plaka (food ..) and the Marathon Village. Lots of other places we couldn't go, especially, the islands...



...probably another time another day;)

Now, I will have to start organising my publications to see if I could get a table of content for my dissertation and writing-up starts as soon as I can get myself to work. At the moment, I'm finding it very difficult to motivate myself to work. It's hard to start any thing meaningful now, there's the World cup going on, summer time events etc... When shall I start again?

Another Nervy day for England

Am not overly certain what will happen between England and Ecuador, but knock-out stages can be very unpredictable. But although I failed in predicting exact scores, I think England should go through, fingers crossed!;)

C'mon England!

Time to put down my pen... set to go cheer England up, I expect an excellent game, score 3-0 to England... World Cup 2006 - England

PhD Forum

I thought this link might be useful to you if you're planning of doing a phd research or currently doing one, here is a forum for you. It features some salient information, complains, faqs, reviews and contributions towards phd studies. Please find time to check it out...;) phd forum

Writing an attribute

Just tidying up a conference paper to be presented at the 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems ICCSIS in Athens, Greece... . So I'lll be travelling nextweek for the conference, hopefully, should enjoy Athens, I've not been there before, here comes an opportunity;-). Oh dear, did I forget to say, I'll be chairing one of the sessions... what a great experience;)
Writing has become a useful habit I would say, I picked up (developed) whilst doing this research... I really don't know if writing is essential or not for a phd research, and will not argue for or against it anyway. But what I know is that, as phd students, we MUST someday write-up our dissertation, so its necessary to develop any skill that will be neccessary for a successful completion.
I am use to using MS word in processing my documents, although Springer and other publishers I've dealt with recommend latex, but I have not really used Latex or Lyx until I met a colleague at the university last week who recommended Lyx, a document processor. To be honest, Lyx is really great, especially its features for mathematics (equations, symbols etc). I must recommend this to anyone in the physical or natural science and engineering. Again, its striaght forward to learn and use.

First things first ...

I've just created my blog page, just making sure things are working as they should ... Please revist soon for excellent thoughts on carrying out a research work, especially, the highs and lows involved - a personal experience ... Thx

Research process

I started my phd research investigation about three years ago, at first all seemed great, inviting and cool, but within a couple of months, suddenly the joy and feeling of 'am a great researcher' started to evaporate, it then dawned on me that the demands of a phd is enormous. ... I probably have started something, either I've not given a good thought about, or something really cool but quite demanding. Off course, the later is the case, phd is something cool, but quite demanding. The first of a couple things I did in the first month, was to submit a research proposal, written as if I knew all the necessary steps, phases and nitty-gritty of my intended research area - 'content security'. Anyway, days turn to months, months turn to years, but here i'm still thinking when will be the final day?
Well, let me think that am making good progress... after all, other of my mates have the same or similar problems... someday we'll all complete... but completing is one thing, phd reserach or being a researcher is not just completing, its a process for life? Do you agree. I can see this as one of the lengthy discussions, as you would expect from many researchers... and 'young researchers'... But I'll leave this for you folks. Bye for now... come back again soon please.