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A Chronological Partial Review of nslab This Year w/ Lots Draw for Prizes. marc. January, 2006. Polly’s winning a joint III-NTU grant from MOEA with Homer Chen and Jason Yao Jimmy and Te-Yuan’s admission to nslab Memorable Year-end party. February, 2006.
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A Chronological PartialReview of nslab This Year w/ Lots Draw for Prizes marc
January, 2006 • Polly’s winning a joint III-NTU grant from MOEA with Homer Chen and Jason Yao • Jimmy and Te-Yuan’s admission to nslab • Memorable Year-end party
February, 2006 • ACM SIGCOMM deadline: Te-Yuan and Yu-Chi worked during the lunar new year
March, 2006 • A Jin-Shi International Marathon: Steve set the new personal also lab-wise best of half marathon: 1 and half an hour; Cheng-Ying and Marc completed their 1st half marathon
March, 2006 (cont) • Steve and team MCT completed the Tong-I Campus Triathlon: 750m swimming, 20km biking, and 5km running • Te-Yuan made up her mind to have longer hair for the first time • Abon’s birthday party
April, 2006 • Two submissions to ACE 2006 accepted as full papers • Monpig’s being admitted by NTU's Department of Information Management through the apply-enter track • IEEE Globecom deadline: Elaine, Ivan and Ming-Tsang stayed up in the lab
May, 2006 • Submission to ACM SIGCOMM accepted • “nslab rocks! It's sigcomm this time! Congratulations to Polly and the very close friend of nslab, Kuan-Ta! This is the sweetest reward for a job well done! Our work on "Quantifying Skype User Satisfaction" will be presented with other 30ish papers in Pisa Italy this September. ACM Sigcomm is an extremely selective conference, one of the toughest in CS. The acceptance rate is only 10.8% this year. There are only three papers from Taiwan in the entire sigcomm history. This is the only one since the mid 90s (after the Internet blooms).”
June, 2006 • Close to the semester end: many of the lab members stayed up in the lab for the term project of network simulation and testing; yet many were anxious about their thesis • SY and Jeffrey passed PhD qualifying exam • Ming-Tsang, Jerry, Tylor, and Tim passed their master oral examinations
July, 2006 • Matthew, Steve, and Steven also passed their master oral exam • Jimmy and Te-Yuan officially joined nslab
August, 2006 • A nslab party
September, 2006 • A floor-wide wireless network testbed established
October, 2006 • A mid-autumn party of the lab
November, 2006 • A confidential Han is admitted to Master Program! (ranked the 2nd by the CS group and the 10th by the Communication group)
November, 2006 • ING marathon
December, 2006 • Bala visited the lab
January, 2007 • Another lab party
February, 2007 • A lab trip
Prizes • ipod Shuffle 1G *2 • 新光三越禮券NT$2000 *1 • Logitech Formula Force Racing Game Controller *1 • Puerto Rico Board Game Set *1 • 新光三越禮券NT$1000 *2 • Microsoft Wireless Mouse *1 • USB Flash Disk 2G *1 • SD Card 2G *2 • Toaster Card Reader *1 • Scrollable Ethernet Cable *1 • 新光三越禮券NT$100 *3
Game Rule:Starting the Game • We will take draw from the last prize • Member who win the special recognition awards gets certain number of chance cards
Game Rule:After Each Draw • Those who hold the chance cards may duel the holder of the drawn prize until we move on to the next draw • Winner of the duel will become the holder of the drawn prize and others may request to duel the new holder • No limit on how many chances one uses per drawn prize
Game Rule:Winning a Duel • A duel is resolved by throwing two dices. Each must throw • May the one with the highest score win • Duce is resolved by another throw
Best Presenters • Elaine • Ahey
Best Hackers • Meng-Ting • Jerry • Te-Yuan • Jimmy • SY
Best Mentors • Ming-Tsang • SY
Best Jugglers • 麗惠 • SY • Ming-Tsang
Best Runners • Cheng-Ying • Marc
Best Volunteers • Cheng-Ying • Ming-Tsang • Te-Yuan • Marc • David
Best Gamers • Marc • Cheng-Ying • Ivan • Jimmy
Most Punctual • Jeffrey
Most Independent Research • Ming-Tsang • Han
Most Spontaneous • Yu-Chi • Ming-Tsang