Wrapping one's head around the data

JOCP! It's been almost five days since I've posted anything here, and I have so much backed up in the queue...

There's a major conference deadline in a few days, and I'm struggling to finish up four different (and only loosely related) papers for submission. On top of that I leave Sunday morning for an excellent week in Germany at a research seminar at the wondrous Schloss Dagstuhl.

So sleep is short and photo fun on Flickr is shorter still. In two weeks, though, I should be able to get back in the game a bit.

This photo is of a student (Tyler - now graduated) during a talk he was giving with another student (Andy) at a regional computer science conference (MICS) last April. On the next day the two of them received the best student paper award for this work :-).

I've spent numerous hours this week drawing and redrawing graphs and tables, so this is all too reminiscent of my life at the moment.