Lots of stuff has happened since my last post, but I've been incredibly busy with both wandering around Germany, and working on finalizing my presentations, so I haven't been able to take the time to write up posts. I'd like to eventually do so for each day, so I can keep a personal record of our travels and the conference. Today, however, I must make a brief post which will be a bit out of the chronology of the documentation of our trip thus far.
Today Chris and Martin were awarded with the Best Paper award for VL/HCC 2008. This is a huge honor, and especially impressive since it's Chris's first published paper. I thought before the conference that they had a good chance of winning the award since they received extremely positive reviews for their paper (I even told Guoning my prediction that Chris's paper would win), but every time I mentioned it to Chris, he brushed it aside, thinking that they had no chance. Anyway, I'm glad he was wrong. I know this was a paper that had gone through a few review processes, undergone some significant revisions and resubmissions, so it's very encouraging to see that sort of diligence and hard work payoff. Congratulations guys!
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