..::ARASH::..

His song temptations is superb.. and the video is excellent..Check out this website.. Also go to video section and see online, temptations..

Tike tike kerdi is another nice song.. ARash is Persian but has sung one song partially in Urdu/Hindi as well :)

Coursework complete

Today my coursework has completed and grades are finalized. By the grace of Allah, I completed in one year 14 courses (4 extras), amounting to 87 ECTS. And I managed to keep my CGPA 4.51/5.00. For me, its a nice leap from 2.63/4.00 my BS CGPA.

I took following courses.
2I1029 Human-Computer Interaction,
2I1703 Affective interaction,
2I1705 Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques,
2I1706 Programming of Interactive Systems,
2I1707 Cognitive and Social Science in HMI,
2I1708 Microsimulation,
2I1709 Collaborative computing,
2I1710 Ubiquitous Computing,
2I1713 Methodology for Interaction Design,
2I1234 Machine Learning,
2I1235 Agent Programming

I didn't take one nice looking course 2I1711 Principles of Visualization however I am reading its contents during my thesis :).

I took three courses from other programs.
2I1224 Data Warehousing,
2G1509 Distributed Systems, Basic Course
2G1526 Distributed Computing, Peer-to-Peer and GRIDS

Faisal Ghias Mir was my project partner in these three courses :).

My Thesis: Visualization of Epidemic Spread

Magnus Boman is advisor and examinor for my Masters Thesis.. Basically I have 3 advisors from all over the places.. Magnus is "the advisor" from my department (DSV KTH/SU).

My other two advisors are Fredrik Liljeros and Mikael Stenhem. Mikael works at
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) and he is specialist on MRSA. Fredrik is social scientist with background in computer science. He listens to Mikael and then translate his requirements into "English" which poor computer scientists, like me, can understand.

Right now I am in phase 1 which concerns with development of early tool that Mikael and Fredrik can use. In phase 2 I will do detailed study on how the tool is used and how it can be improved (or replaced, if need arise). In phase 3 I will develop second version of this tool, based on my findings from phase 2.

I am using C/C++, Win32, ADO and DirectX 9 in Phase 1. I am doing development on Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. and the coolest thing about my project is that I am doing lots of programming.

My thesis and my name on and page.

Back to wired

My laptop's Ethernet card needs manual effort to make it work :).. Its long story but to make it work one has to put full force on the left-back side of laptop.

Anyway I decided to move to wireless.. I bought WLAN card from UK (as I found a very cheap one there).. But now after having not-so good experience largely because of unreliable link quality of KTH I have decided to move back to good old Ethernet..

I have bought this device DUB-E100.. And its cool and this is first blog using it :)..