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Soccer, tedeschi, materassi ed altre amenità

Da questo momento mi considero ufficialmente sistemato a Providence: sono andato in dipartimento e ho ricevuto login, password, Brow ID card e quant’altro, ho aperto un conto in banca (ho ricevuto dei vezzosissimi assegni dai colori sgargianti e mi è stata fatta notare la possibilità di ordinarne altri con disegnato Spongebob…), ho fatto l’abbonamento per [...]

Posted 04 October 2008 † Matteo § Italiano ‡ Comments (3) °

Le mie camicie e l’asciugatrice

Note to English speaking readers: from now on, I’ll start writing some posts in Italian. Now that I’m living in Providence, RI, I think I have this right. If you’re subscribed to the RSS feed and don’t want to read posts in Italian, modify your subscription to include only the English category (RSS link). Thank [...]

Posted 02 October 2008 † Matteo § Italiano ‡ Comments (7) °

Building up a castle

As you may know, starting from October 1st I’m going to live in Providence, RI, to attend Brown University as a research assistant at the CS dep.
Setting up everything is needed to go abroad: paperwork from the university, visa, accomodation, furniture, health insurance, and so on. It’s like building a castle and at the moment [...]

Posted 08 September 2008 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (0) °

The show begins!

Today I met with Prof. Pietracaprina and Ph.D student Fabio Vandin and discussed about my thesis work. We came up with some suggestions about what to look for in the short term and I hope to study the problem and get back to the Professor next week.
I’m really happy to start working, because my life [...]

Posted 21 August 2008 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (0) °

Fully Empty

Exams never end? False! I finished my exams on July 9th and I’m ready to go to Brown University in October. Yes, I’m excited.
But.
But once you’re done with your duty and you should be light and happy like fresh air, that’s the time when deep feelings come out. Life is not only about your [...]

Posted 14 July 2008 † Matteo § English § Personal § Photos ‡ Comments (1) °

Final finals!

My last finals session is approaching and is starting in two weeks. Oh gosh!
Today, real studying starts too. =)

Posted 03 June 2008 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (0) °

Some updates

My thesis will be on data mining (more details in the near future).

I had a great night tonight, thanks to two friends. You can see friends seldom, but if they are friends, it’s like you lived together everyday.
Am I forgetting $I_WON’T_TELL_YOU_WHAT_OR_WHO ? Perhaps. This is not a good move in the long run.

Posted 27 May 2008 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Papers reading

As I said before, I’m reading seminal papers for my Ms.C thesis. I still have to choose the topic of the thesis but Prof. Pietracaprina, Prof. Upfal and Prof. Peserico gave me two topics to choose from.
I’ve never said before that I will work on my thesis at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, starting from [...]

Posted 18 May 2008 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (2) °

This is busy.

Yes. My actual situation can surely be an example of what busy is.
I’m taking four courses this trimester. This is two courses above the average for my Master course.
One of them has a laboratory. Two of them have projects to work on in groups.
I’m reading seminal papers on Data Mining (frequent itemsets in transactions) and [...]

Posted 15 May 2008 † Matteo § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

Quick note

26/30 in Data and Algorithms 2. Uff. I’m not happy, although it’s a good note and the exam is considered to be difficult (but it wasn’t.)

Posted 26 March 2008 † Matteo § ‡ Comments (0) °