Testing and Coding…Concurrently
PNSQC Slides and Paper Are Up
My thesis defense is tomorrow which is why I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. If all goes well, I’ll be posting a link to that in the next week.
This is just a quick post to say that my paper and presentation have been added to the PNSQC web-site, along with everyone else’s paper and presentation: click here and have fun exploring.
Since I don’t read from powerpoint slides, you won’t find much in the way of explanatory verbiage in the slides, but I’m happy to answer questions if there’s something you’d like me to clarify. Ideally, I would download the paper, and read the paper while you have the slides up. They told me to make all of the pictures for the paper extremely small and grayscale…sigh. Kind of kills the whole visualization aspect of my paper, but I understand they had good reasons for asking. This is exactly why Edward Tufte took out a 2nd mortgage on his house, and self-published his first book. I would write more about that because it’s a post in and of itself, but my recursion ain’t workin’, gotta go!
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