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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!