These days I have been reading the University Newspaper as a way to practice my Japanese. The front page news was that the university released “University Bonds” to finance itself. So that is a thing. I wonder if that is a good thing. I think people buying university bonds means that they trust the university […]
This week I have been feeling super drained because of a plagiarism problem in my programming intro lecture. Last week one of the TAs noticed a trio of identical reports. I sent a message to the students asking them what was up with that, and what one of them said in response rang some alarm […]
This week we had the Master Thesis defense, for students graduating in the CS program at the University of Tsukuba. There are about 140 defenses total, and I was invited to be a member of the committee for 8 of those. While I was reading the theses in preparation, I got curious about which professors […]
The SMTP (send mail) server for the Tsukuba University CS department can only be accessed from whith the university. With the fair amount of travelling I do while working (or even when working from home), I need some way to log in and send my e-mails whenever necessary. One “simple” way to do that is […]