MDM 2010: 2nd, 3rd, 4th day

Because this is a late blog entry, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th day of MDM 2010 (24, 25, 26 May) are very briefly talked about here. It's been quite a busy time till I returned 26th evening to Rolla.
The 2nd day went in the main conference proceedings and some interesting talks. The highlight was definitely Mahadev Satyanarayanan's keynote talk in the morning. The co-inventor of CODA and AFL gave an interesting speech on cloud computing. If context was the buzzword for Sunday, cloud was for Monday. I attended couple of proceedings' talk as well. I noticed a substantial difference in the presentation of Europians and North Americans somehow put the later in a better acceptability in technical world, while Europe is no doubt doing really good too. Asians are more like North Americans, except Chinese and Japanese. Japanese research community is strong and close, they are so self-sufficient and self-aware that they hardly publish outside Japan. But very few who do, like Dr. Hara, show their superiority and mastery over others. In the evening, I went with others from Rolla and some from UMKC for a visit to UMKC campus, and then to an Indian Restaurant "Masalas" for dinner. UMKC has a slightly bigger campus, but the science and engg. school is not very strong there.
The 3rd day, May 25 was my talk and poster presentation. Both went alright, but I think I could have done much better. Dr. Goce's invited talk in MPDMST was just before me, and his presentation skills are amazing. In fact his conference paper won the best paper award later in evening in the banquet. My poster received a lot of attention for the topic being so emergent. VANET is going to be the MANET of the next decade. I didn't win any prize, but met interesting questions and ideas. Zeina Torbey from France spoke to me about her paper on file sharing in VANET - "COFFEE".
In the conference banquet in the evening I met a lot of people. 
The last day was hardly anything. We left early after attending a couple of talks. We left around noon, stopped at a BBQ for lunch, had a bad lunch, drove back to Rolla with a short break at Truman Dam. I had a motion sickness on the way. Finally it was a bliss to be back around 6.30 PM.
Overall, the conference was quite a bit of experience. Meeting so many people from different countries of Europe, Asia, North and South America (e.g. France, Greece, Germany, Sweden, Russia, China, Japan, India, Nepal, Middle East, Brazil etc.) was an experience in itself. Then so much of brain storming and technical discussion definitely advanced my knowledge and motivation substantially.