Life during and after a PhD

I gave a quick talk today (along with Giovanni Toffetti and Monica Landoni) to the new PhD students at the University of Lugano on life during and after a PhD. - Finally my chance to tell the new students all the stuff I wish somebody had told me when I started! I'm posting my advice/musings online in case somebody else finds it useful.

Lecture slides on Web 2.0

Today I gave a lecture on Web 2.0 to 3rd year undergraduate students in Informatics at the University of Lugano.

I concentrated on the themes of user-generated content (wikis, blogging, tagging), applications (mash-ups), social networks and personalization. For each area I gave an overview of current techniques and described some examples, before discussing some research areas (and providing pointers to further information).

The slides of the presentation are available online. - Being a presentation on Web 2.0 I thought that using an online office suite was appropriate....