The Eighth Week: July 23 - July 27

Summary:

This week I finished all the Java/XML tutorials and worked on applying them to the primitive version of the tool that I had been working on. The changes that I made allowed the tool to read XML documents, view the information graphically, and output the data in various ways. At the end of the week Mary Jean and I discussed some issues involved with the process of getting DejaVOO to generate the metacontents.

This week I also met Ashok Goel, another professor at Georgia Tech. Ashok also works in AI, and was my first computer science professor's advisor in grad school. We had a really great conversation - he does really interesting work. It really got me thinking about grad school in some new ways, and rejuvenated my enthusiasm about CS and grad school. I also met with one of Janet Kolodner's grad students, Jakita, to get her perspectives on Georgia Tech and CS grad schools. That was also really helpful - she had some good advice for me.