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Progess report

Posted on October 25th, 2006 by Sacha Chua

I've been with the IBM Toronto Center for Advanced Studies since February, and it's time to make a progress report. What have I done in the past eight months to create value for them and work on my research?

My work seemed pretty random in the beginning. I spent a fair bit of time just getting the feel of IBM, learning about the different services on IBM's intranet and making sense of the blogosphere. I had to be told to concentrate several times! ;)

The funny thing is that this random casting-about is probably *just* what I needed to do. My blog helped me meet other people working in the space, and I learned about visualizations and resources that I wouldn't have come across on my own.

The prototype that I made for kicks might be an interesting tool. The researchers I talked to found it novel...

What's next?

I need to sit down and just build the darn tool. I think it'll take me two, three weeks for the search engine, maybe another week for the aggregator. I already have most of the code. November will be my intensive hacking month, so don't expect to hear much from me externally.

Then I need to test the tool with people so that I have data that I can write up during my vacation. Early December?

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