Confessions of a researchaholic

My friend Nelson Chu could not attend SIGGRAPH 2017 to demo his Expresii, so I stood in for him.

Thanks to the wonderful product from Nelson, this is a fantastic presentation experience. I can interact with and talk to many different people, focusing more on practical utility than technical details. I had no time to get bored for the entire 2-hour duration. People kept on visiting even after the session closing. And I had a great time practicing playing the app myself.

Publishing a SIGGRAPH paper is about proving how smart we are, while demoing a SIGGRAPH app is about demonstrating how useful it is for you.

Instead of hosting research materials on our own servers (as I did in the old days for both ongoing projects and published outcomes), it is more flexible to share on GitHub/Bitbucket public/private repos that need revision control, and store the compiled files in other services, such as papers on research gate or semantic scholar, videos via YouTube/Vimeo, etc.

With this setup, the co-authors can edit the research page together, and have less to worry about server management.

We should share only information ready for the public domain, e.g., paper title only after the submission is formally approved for acceptance, and code/algorithm after filing the relevant patent(s).