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By Guus , 24 September 2002

Finite transition systemYesterday I studied some more theory on Formal Methods, and today I started the practical work. I finished the first assignment, which is about analysing a very simple protocol. The picture here is a instantiation of a system where two 1-bit buffers are put in sequence.

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By Guus , 19 September 2002

Today I'm studying again, it's probably going to take another two weeks. The subject is more difficult than I thought, but interesting. Today I learned how to specify a clock:


act tick
display: Nat
proc Clock(n:Nat) = tick·Clock(S(n)) + display(n)·Clock(n)
init Clock(0)


Nice language :)

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By Guus , 3 September 2002

The last few days I've been waiting for an e-mail of my teacher, because the mark for my paper should be delivered before the 1st of September.

Today I checked my e-mail -- nothing again. Just for fun I decided to have a look at my marks (I can check them online). And... the result was there, a 9!

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By Guus , 19 August 2002

It's now official, the website of our university (the VU) is the worst of all university websites in the Netherlands.

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By Guus , 15 August 2002

At my parents now, we'll have dinner soon. It's really cosy here, and "the tourists" had a nice day today they told me.

I'm very happy my paper is ready and delivered (went to the VU to deliver a physical copy). I can focus on my internship now.

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By Guus , 15 August 2002

...As an attachment you'll find my paper for Human-Computer Interaction.
Title: Visual Programming, a promise for the future?...

I delivered it! The final version of my paper is also online, here as .pdf, here as PostScript.

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By Guus , 15 August 2002

At 15:00 o'clock I want to sent my paper to the teacher. Now working on the introduction -- Phillip pointed out that this the purpose of my paper wasn't very clear so I'm added some stuff on this.

Found a website on round-trip java programming, www.objectsbydesign.com, nice guys there; they let me use a screenshot from their website.

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By Guus , 15 August 2002

Found out something really scary: The backups I have been making the last week of my paper are all just links to my original paper. Meaning: if my original paper would have disappeared, so would have all my backups... You really can't trust Word, even when you're as paranoid as I am in making backup copies every few hours.

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By Guus , 15 August 2002

Yes! A fan! "...I read your paper, its really an interesting read." Thank you! First one not to consider it boring :)

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