IRIS Student Workshop ‘04
I spent Sunday and Monday (and a tiny bit of Saturday!) in Cambridge for the IRIS student workshop. On Sunday, I and fifteen other talented, optimistic grad students from IRIS universities (Rice, MIT, NYU, and UC Berkeley) delivered brief advertisements for our latest halfbaked (and, occasionally, fully-baked) ideas. Monday morning included a poster session, during which we were grilled (if we were lucky) by NSF sponsors. You can check out the workshop program, including an early version of my slides: A Plan to Save RSS. (Yes, I’m serious about building the system I describe.)
The best part of the weekend, for me, was the opportunity to meet other students working on this stuff (p2p, DHTs, and unicorns). I came away with fifty great new ideas, and hopefully I left one or two of my own behind as well.
It was great to meet you, Sean, Hakim, Patrick, Frank, Emil, Athicha, Chris, Kevin, Mike, and a bunch of other talented folks (who I don’t have URLs for at the moment). Let’s do this again sometime!