(taken from here) 
Computing in the 21st Century Conference, jointly hosted by National Natural ScienceFoundation Commission, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) and Peking University will be held on November 4th, 2008. Thousands of professors and students from colleges all around Beijing will gather in Peking University’s Centennial Hall for this grand event. Masters in computer research throughout the […]

Wow, a nice concert will come to Singapore… Accidentally after I see Ungu’s concert ads, I see this one (which I pasted below). Well, anyone who interested to come, can go with me. Most probably, I’ll come to the concert with the $68 ticket (the 88-138 are too expensive for a student like me while […]

For some reasons, my topic for URECA was changed. It is now “An approach of evolutionary and local search for solving job shop optimization”. A co-supervisor also involved now, he is Dr. Ho Nhu Binh from SIMTech. So, mainly, now I’m dealing with memetic algorithm (evolutionary algorithm + local search). In a way, it’s a totally new thing for me. […]

(good points quoted from “Knowing God’s Will; Biblical Principles of Guidance” [Blain, M. Smith])
Some reasons why knowledge of the future could be harmful for us:
1. Knowledge of the future could be paralyzing, e.g. Saul’s experience when he consulted the witch (1 Sam 28). God leads us as much by information he withholds as by information he gives.
2. […]