Other Stuffs

This page is for anything other than reSearch, Research or ReSearch.

This Z7Z8D³ might have different pronunciations, depending on your interpretation. Mine is zá qī zá bā dē dōng dōng (in hanyupinyin 汉语拼音).

Teaching

Starting from Jan 2009, I am taking up some part-time teaching at NTU.

• [2009 Jan] H6672: Web-based Information Systems, SCI, NTU

Software

I like to spend time exploring new software technologies. Once in a while, such exploration might result in some small little software. I shall put some of them here once they are considered "usable". of the system.

[2004 Feb] I was working on a small agent program called MSNBot that acts as ur buddy in your MSN Messenger and is able to provide several services, such as news feeding, Chinese-English/English-Chinese translation, and Google search. If you would like to talk to the bot, add "wiccap_bot @ hotmail.com" into your contact. It is, however, not always online. I suppose bots also need take a rest.

Articles

From time to time, I might write short articles about some of the new technologies that I play with. These are more industrial styles of writing, rather different from those academic ReSearch papers. I put them here to share my experiences.

• [2004 Jul] A short tutorial on XDoclet templates

Conference Management Software

In year 2002 and 2003, I was in charge of maintaining the conference paper submission system for WISE 2002, ICADL 2002, and WIDM 2003. The system that I used is ConfMan. Based on the different requirements from the PC chairs, I have added into the ConfMan system several new features, including:

• paper preference indication by reviewers
• automated paper assignment based on reviewers' preference
• detecting papers authored by PC members
• ordering paper by rating weighted by reviewers' familarity
• accepting paper as different types: long, short, poster, etc
• configurable template based email content with parameters

If you intend to use this improved ConfMan for your conference/workshop, please contact me for a updated copy of the system.

Wei Qi (围棋)

I am an amateur WeiQi player. WeiQi is an ancient Chess game originated from China long time ago (//TODO find out how long). I enjoy playing WeiQi, although it is, by modern standard, considered as a luxury game, in terms of the time that it takes - to play one game takes about a few hours to 2 days.

I played at the university level NTU WeiQi Open championships for four years without winning a champion. My best records were Runner-up in year 2000 and 2001. However, those results were good enough to get me selected into the team representing NTU to paly in the annual Inter-Varsity-Polytechnic (IVP) games, where teams from NTU, NUS and the (then) 4 ploytechnics come together to compete at team level. We won two gold medals and two silver medals during the four years that I participated. And I was captain of the team in year 1999.