Edible paper

Today my PhD students and postdocs surprised me at the RTS group meeting with a birthday cake in the form of a research paper, IEEE style and everything.

Here's a photo of the cake:

And here is a link to the PDF version of the paper, which I heard went through several rounds of review by the students and postdocs.

Below, some pictures of me cutting the cake and distributing to the Real-Time Systems Group folks.

Thank you very much, everyone! I really appreciated the surprise and all the creativity that went into the paper writing (and baking!)

Random news

Some news that I should have announced earlier here:

• The book on Embedded Systems Design that I have edited jointly with Alessandra Bagnato, Imran Quadri and Matteo Rossi has been published by IGI Global. It provides insights from the computer science community on integrated systems research projects taking place in the European region. It covers a diverse range of design principles covered by these projects, from specification at high abstraction levels using standards such as UML and related profiles to intermediate design phases.

• My PhD student Bharath Sudev has received two awards in 2014. First, he received the best paper award at ReCoSoC 2014, with his paper on "Low overhead predictability enhancement in non-preemptive network-on-chip routers using Priority Forwarded Packet Splitting". Then, he received the best presentation award at the YDS 2014 with a talk on "Dynamic Time Multiplexed Virtual Channels, a Performance Scalable Approach in Network-On-Chip Routers to Reduce Packet Starvation". Congratulations to Bharath, the awards look good at the RTS award gallery.