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Good News

Kamangir | October 2, 2007 | Category Personal

m_d02.jpgAside from the Ph.D. thesis, I work in a research lab. Here, I am focused on fuzzy design and maintenance of Video on Demand (VoD) systems. This week, I received two good news about the work we have been doing in the last few months.

We had submitted two reports about our works, one to an IEEE conference, and the other one to an systemsmancyberneticsb.jpgIEEE journal. The good news is, we were informed that the IEEE ISSPIT 2007 conference has accepted our work, and that means a trip to Egypt for Azadeh and I, because Azadeh has her own paper to present there. Furthermore, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics has accepted a longer version for publication.

While this is all good news, it is also a reminder that I do have other works to attend to. I’ll try to cut down the time I spend in the Persian blogosphere. I should also spend more time working out plus improving my lousy English. Keep your fingers crossed for me, please.

Reader's Comments

  1. serendip | October 2nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    Do you know Dr. Lotfi? The inventor of fuzzy logic?

    http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/

    He is Iranian.

    I wish you the best of luck and a fun trip.

    Kamangir: Well, I have read his papers. Iranians tend to think that he is Iranian but he really isn’t. Any way, I am proud of him as a human being. Is that not enough? :)

    p.s. A friend of mine insists that the correct answer is “We don’t know if he is Iranian or not”. According to Wikipedia,

    Zadeh is noted to “quick(ly) shrug off nationalism, insisting there are much deeper issues in life”, where he himself is quoted stating: “The question really isn’t whether I’m American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else, I’ve been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them.”

  2. tglavin | October 2nd, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    Don’t cut back too much time on your Persian weblog surfing. Your page is one of the few places where the stuff of Persian bloggers gets out into the Anglosphere.

    But congratulations and good luck with those two bits of good news, Archer.

    Cheers!

    Kamangir: Thanks Terry! :)

  3. armilnov | October 2nd, 2007 at 9:28 pm

    Wow, good job! IEEE journal publication is a big, big thing! I just started my PhD in Electrical Engineering at University of Florida, so I know how it is……Congratulations!

    Kamangir: Thanks. I’m sure you’ll start publishing your papers very soon.

  4. Matthew | October 2nd, 2007 at 9:52 pm

    Fingers crossed for you Arash–a little time out of the library, off the blogs, and in the gym could do us all a lot of good!

    Kamangir: Thanks Matthew Jan. :)

  5. Roman Kalik | October 2nd, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    Congratulations, man!

    Kamangir: Thanks Roman. :)

  6. Lady Sun | October 2nd, 2007 at 11:45 pm

    Congrats! Just make sure to go on a Nile Cruise. It’s not so expensive and is a unique experience.

    Kamangir: Thanks for the hint! I will definitely do it.

  7. ella | October 3rd, 2007 at 12:26 am

    The paper accepted for publication in IEEE journal is really something.
    Congratulations!!!

    Have a great trip to Egypt and try to see as much of it as possible.

    btw. Please try to improve your written english by writting longer posts on this blog, pretty please?
    (Improve?! Lousy English? Your English is great. You are fishing for complements, I am sure ;-) )

    Kamangir: Ella, I was thinking the other day that you are the most senior commenter here. We got to know each other on May 2006. Any way, thanks. I have not been writing here very much mainly because I have been very involved with my Persian blog. I am redirecting some of that energy to here. About the “fishing” thing, well, not that I wouldn’t have liked a few compliments, but, frankly, I need to work on it and writing longer posts, as you have also mentioned, would be good for that.

  8. serendip | October 3rd, 2007 at 3:02 am

    Kaman: He is Iranian. I have a personal friend of mine who has lunch with him everymonth. I can have you get in touch with him personally.

    Kamangir: That’d be fantastic. About his nationality, I jumped the gun, he considers his nationality a fuzzy variable, as much as I have understood, and thus he is an Iranian as well as an American and a few other nationalities.

  9. serendip | October 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 am

    Kaman: My friends who knows Lotfi personally has a blog. I can have her contact you and you can contact her.

    http://nazykaviani.blogspot.com/2007/03/fuzzy.html

    http://nazykaviani.blogspot.com/

    Kamangir: My dream is to go do a post-doc with Zadeh. Thanks for the link. :)

  10. human being | October 3rd, 2007 at 3:13 am

    for Ella : it is “compliment” ;)
    Arash once had the same mistake! :D

    And: Arash, This kind of news IS really great. Congrats!
    Wish you and your wife the best.
    Good news are good for all of us: they dissipate anger ;) and propagate hope and happiness and this can lead to more kindness and love. Thank you so much for starting this firework! Hope to hear more!

    Kamangir: Thanks. :)

  11. potkin azarmehr | October 3rd, 2007 at 6:30 am

    well done. always remember your social status and career is also important. You will not be a good example for other Iranians if you fail in your career and personal life.

    This is what other Iranian ex-pats must realise, it is possible to be successful and also get involved in the destiny of our fatherland.

    I am proud of your success as my compatriot.

    Kamangir: You have just pointed out a very true fact. Being a so-called activist who is a loser in his daily life is the least we want to make out of ourselves. So well said and thanks.

  12. >> Musulmaan-i Mumbaaii... An Indian Muslims View [blog] | October 3rd, 2007 at 7:50 am

    Congratulations

    Kamangir: Thanks! :)

  13. Tom | October 3rd, 2007 at 8:31 am

    Sweet!

    Remember me when you are famous! :p

    Kamangir: I wish publishing one paper would make a person famous! :D

  14. faridpouya | October 3rd, 2007 at 9:39 am

    Bravo!

    Kamangir: Thanks Farid. :)

  15. serendip | October 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 am

    Kaman: If you are nice, I can have my friend arrange a meeting for you too. She is the most lovely person you would ever want to meet. Maybe the three of you can go to lunch together in Berkeley.hahahah

  16. sheida | October 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm

    Congratulations

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