A Doggerel Celebrating Our Summer Interns

A Doggerel 

Celebrating Our Summer Interns

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Every year our Networking and Mobility Lab hosts a few summer interns from various universities. It was another fun-bunch this year. Here is an attempt at some rhyming of summer events, networking concepts and jokes put together as a doggerel celebrating class of 2014 summer interns.

Interns in our Program (IP) ain’t they shrew(d)?

They call it “best effort” after dropping a few

Creepy

They are much like TCP

None of them a Flake

For you always get a proper handshake

Upon receiving two mentors in a tow

Promptly close the window

Intern Bullpen is the cube some share

Labelled it WiFi as all can interfere

Collisions galore

RTS/CTS no more

Mentors sometimes receive a HTTP four-o-four

“Not found but will be back soon on cube floor”

Fellow interns can so advocate

For “Localization” is not so accurate

The NML San Francisco city tour elation

Was engineered via voting DDoS coordination

Already End-of-summer, oh-geez!

At HPL on just a 3 month DHCP lease

Not “Jittery” about exit talk, why fuss

Realtime communication, but there is QoS

Not all “SYN”

End with FIN

More like HTTP persistent connection

There might be resurrection

Meanwhile onto publication and dissertation

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Patents' Tuesday Trickle?

Today 2 of our QoS Controller patents were granted by USPTO.

                                                              

Personally 2013 has seen quite a stream of granted patents. As of today, the count of granted patents in this year stands at 11. Here is an interesting tidbit about the official grant dates for these eleven patents. All of them have been granted on a Tuesday. It seems more than just a co-incidence. Wonder how USPTO selects grant dates and why they all have been a Tuesday this year?

The recent string of patent grants has been a continuous trickle. 6 patents granted during 7 consecutive Tuesdays from August 6th till today, September 17th. This more than doubled the number of granted patents this year.

15Yrs@1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA

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Having joined HP Labs on Sept 15, 1998 right after finishing my Ph.D. from USC, my journey here has reached its 15^th year milestone today. And quite a journey it has been. Working on cutting-edge technologies with technology pioneers has been an extremely rewarding learning experience. I did finish my Ph.D. but the education continues, every new research effort we take on is like becoming a graduate student again. Raplh Waldo Emerson’s following quote has been my guiding principle and embodies my research career:

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

HP and my HPL colleagues created a PURL (Personalized URL) to recognize this milestone. 

http://hp.recognitionpurl.com/hprecognition/Puneet.Sharma.24706

Jotted down some of the keywords and phrases that reflect upon fellow travelers, undertaken endeavors, achievements, friendships, fueling stations, vista points, segues, road signs and flag posts along this trip. Trying to capture overwhelming swarm of thoughts and memories that are difficult to express, hopefully it is still comprehensible.

• Silicon Valley, Mecca of IT, Garage, Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, El Camino, Page Mill Road, Stanford Research Park, HP Labs, 1501
• Starting workday with a look at and sitting next to HP’s Audio Oscillator (Model 200c)
•  Cubes, Open Doors, Reconfigurable Labs, OpenFlowing Ceiling, Board Room, Bill & Dave’s Offices, Executive Briefing Center, Travel Office
• Research Proposals, Prototypes, Tech Transfer, External Funding, Technology incubation, Acquisition Technology Evaluation, Strategy, Roadmaps
• Cupertino, Ft. Collins, Roseville, Boise, Bangalore, China, Brazil
• OASIS, Media Collective, Multicast, NAPA, OpenNet, Nebula, CoolTown
• ISAL, BISL, MMSL, MCNL, NCL, NML
• HP, Agilent, Compaq, EDS, 3COM, Palm
• IETF, UPnP
•  IEEE, ACM, IFIP, Infocom, Sigcomm, NSDI, CCR, ToN, CCW, IWQoS, LANMAN, ICNP, NOMS, IM
• Papers, Patents, Panels, Presentations, Proposal, Prototype, Products
• Un-Extinguishable flame of HP Way, People Company
• Invent, Re-invent
• SDN, OpenFlow, NFV, QoS, Cloud, Measurement, DCN, Wireless, Mobility, Presence
• Netvigator, Hercules, NetSlicer, CloudMirror, MC²,Chart, S³, PoleStar, ElasticTree, DevoFlow, Pegasus, MDFE
• Interop, HP Discover
• UC Berkeley, Purdue, UC Davis, GMU, Princeton, UCSB, Stanford, NII Japan, IIT Delhi
• Fidelity, Verizon, ATT, Dreamworks, Philips, Ericsson, Nicira, VMWare, Microsoft, Disney, NTT
• Mentorship, Leadership, Collaboration, Dissertation Committees, Seminars
• DARPA Chart, NSF GENI, Planet-Lab
• Colleagues, Interns, Fellows, Managers, Directors, Collaborators, BU Partners
• Photoshoot for Analyst’s Meeting Poster
• USC-UCLA game wagers, Tennis, Cricket, Badminton
• Global Teleconferences, 6AM Pacific, Persistent Jetlag, Coffee Talks, Chalk Talks, White Boarding, Virtual Rooms
• Researcher, Scientist, Architect, Lead, Principal, Distinguished, Senior, Member, Technologist, Panelist, PI
• Splits, Mergers, Acquisitions, ReOrg, WFR, Hiring, Retirements, Departures, Newbies
• Tuesday Trickle of Patents (5 Granted Patents in Span of 7 Consecutive Tues: Aug 6-Sep 17, ‘13)
• Smart and Supportive, Caring and Collaborative Colleagues
• Thanks, Gratitude, Appreciation, Humility, Family, Friends, Colleagues

Douglas Adam’s statement probably sums up the journey so far:

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

― Douglas Adams

Not sure what the future has in store, but I can promise that the constant urge to probe the frontiers of exploration like Voyager 1 beyond Solar System will always remain insatiable.

I owe all those who have touched me in this journey a debt of gratitude.

- Puneet                                     

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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

― Albert Einstein