cperciva
10-05-2001, 11:20 AM
In case anyone's been wondering at my recent absence, I've been transported across the atlantic ocean and am now furthering my studies at Oxford. After a week and a half of badgering the staff here they've finally laid some Ethernet cable to connect me to the college network, and thereby to the outside world, so I'll be making something of a reappearance now.
I say "something of a reappearance" because I'm theoretically supposed to be working hard on MSc courses and doing research for my qualifying dissertation at the end of the year, so I can't say for certain yet how much time I'll have to spend around here.
Incidentally, my research topic, as accurately as it can be pinned down in one meeting with my supervisor: Distributed supercomputing. (ie, take the ideas behind GIMPS, PiHex, d.net, and SETI@Home, but add some more sophistication in order to make it possible to attack harder problems.)
I say "something of a reappearance" because I'm theoretically supposed to be working hard on MSc courses and doing research for my qualifying dissertation at the end of the year, so I can't say for certain yet how much time I'll have to spend around here.
Incidentally, my research topic, as accurately as it can be pinned down in one meeting with my supervisor: Distributed supercomputing. (ie, take the ideas behind GIMPS, PiHex, d.net, and SETI@Home, but add some more sophistication in order to make it possible to attack harder problems.)