Deviant Abstraction

Voici mon mémoire de probatoire CNAM et les transparents de la présentation associée.

Mémoire (thesis) et transparents et notes d’exposé.

” François Chérèque : La politique de l’emploi est ciblée sur le coût du travail avec des allégements de charges sur les bas salaires, d’où une concentration des bas salaires énorme. On a augmenté le nombre des smicards (17% des salariés) et on a 50% des salariés qui gagnent moins de 1480 euros par mois net. Les entreprises n’ont pas intérêt à former leurs salariés, car s’ils les forment, ils doivent les payer plus. Le processus bloque l’économie.”

Je me sens une légitimité pour aborder cette question puisque je viens de la formation continue en cours du soir (et après tout c’est un blog donc pourquoi ai-je besoin d’une légitimité pour aborder un sujet). Au cours de mon parcours au CNAM et en entreprise (je travaillais à mi-temps durant cette période), je confirme ce diagnostic de M. Chérèque (dont je ne partages pas d’habitude les analyses). C’est exactement ce que j’ai vu. Par exemple, mes deux anciens employeurs ont fait beaucoup pour me dissuader de terminer mes études. Ma solution? Je travaille à l’étranger…

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For those interested, I just finished this thesis on the querying of XML documents. It is in French, but somehow, some might find it useful.

This document was made for the CNAM’s Probatory Exam, one the two thesis due for an Engineer’s Degree.

Please send me your feedback.

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As you know we are in the web 2.0 times. This is why I am asking your help for proofreading/finetuning this thesis on Querying XML Documents. It is in French though.

I need to give it back by Tuesday. All hands are welcome: proofreading, mistakes, suggestions.

Thanks a lot. You are saving my life and helping me get my degree!

Please use track change function under OO or Word so I can aggregate all your helpful remarks.

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As you may know, I have started working on my master’s thesis for my company. Thanks to this enlightened company, the produced software will be open source.

If you care to know what this thesis is all about, here is a quick document about the system I am designing and building. I am waiting for your feedback.

This document is highly unscientific and quite general but might allow you to understand better what I am writing and why I like it.

I will update regularly this blog on the status and deliverables of my thesis, so stay tuned… Even better fetch my RSS feed.

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This is the last part on my presentation on large scale distributed file system. Here is the report (in French) synthetizing all we have said on the subject.

This presentation was made for a CNAM class and I wish to thank all the professors and the other students for their support and help.

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One of my professor has sent me this picture of one of Google’s first server. (It is a cellphone picture.)

It seems all their concepts were already in place at this time.

Pretty cool.

(photo taken by Pierre Paradinas at the Computer Science Museum)

This presentation is about Internet based distributed file systems. Something we think is going to be quite big in the near future. We are not talking about Google remote hard drive, nor MSN one. We are talking about the next step of the storage industry.

Please have a look and enjoy it.

The last part to follow is the report on those two presentations and the class will be over (and hopefully succeeded).

It was a lot of work for me and Ingrid but it was fun. (All the docs are in French, if someone translates them please send them back to me so I can put them online).

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Slides with comments

From Tim Bray, his own état de l’art analysis. Quite interesting. Especialy for someone like me with a strong focus on distributed computing.

I will comment on it later (after my exams probably, right now I have a lot, a lot of work)

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The Google Summer of Code application period is over.

This is why, I have decided to publish my application. If I am accepted into the program, I will probably need to rewrite it and elaborate on it. I will post all relevant material to this blog.
If I am selected, I will update regularly on this blog the status of the project and what is my daily work on the JackRabbit project.

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