Weekly Record of Time Spent

A summary, by Zach Tomaszewski

for ICS 699, Fall 2007, directed by Dr. Kim Binsted


Goal: 15 hours a week, divided evenly (3 hours each) between 5 different focuses. Sketching and Writing have priority.


ReadingSketchingWritingMiscGaming
Week 1
(20 Aug)
1:15 2:00 0:00 0:30 0:00
  • Morrissey and Talley article
  • Global actions vs local verbs
  • Contextual translation
 
  • Web update
  • Emails (inc. considering Intetain)
 
Week 2
(27 Aug)
0:00 1:40 0:00 0:00 0:00
 
  • Tweaking, Possible encounters
     
Week 3
(03 Sep)
3:15 0:40 0:00 0:00 1:05
  • Ivo S's article
  • Airship research
  • New V-on-Zs (Demeter) storyline.
   
  • D&D: S
Week 4
(10 Sep)
0:00 0:00 0:00 3:30 4:00
     
  • Camera-ready AAAI-FS paper submitted
  • Emailing JZ
  • D&D: Ward
Week 5
(17 Sept)
0:00 5:05 0:55 0:45 1:30 + 0:55
 
  • New sketchbook!
  • Verbs
  • Roles, PC-centric actions
  • Translation to global actions
  • Threads vs causal effect (triggers)
  • Design write-up started
  • Verbs, Actions
  • Meeting (Kim + Jared)
  • Grim Fandango
  • D&D: S
Week 6
(24 Sep)
0:00 3:20 0:00 0:00 1:00 + 6:05
 
  • Plotting/storyline, maps
  • Actions, Encounters/Scenes
   
  • Grim Fandango
  • D&D: Inter
  • D&D: Ward
  • D&D: S
Week 7
(01 Oct)
0:00 6:25 0:00 0:25 1:00
 
  • New sketchbook: Actions, Scenes
  • Reincorporation
  • Reincorporation again (threads finally defined?)
  • Scene and Thread Managers
 
  • Web update
  • D&D: S
Week 8
(08 Oct)
0:00 3:20 14:05 3:50 2:20
 
  • Example storylines
  • Marlinspike paper for ITIS/INTETAIN
  • AAAI FS flights
  • Email to Ivo
  • D&D: Inter
Week 9
(15 Oct)
0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 4:40
       
  • D&D: Ward
  • D&D: S
Week 10
(22 Oct)
0:35 3:15 0:00 11:40 0:00
  • DMG2 notes
  • Storylines
 
  • 720 Presentation
  • 720 comments/discussion
  • Argax update
  • Booking DC rooms
 
Week 11
(29 Oct)
0:00 1:10 0:00 0:20 0:00
 
  • General review
 
  • 720 comments
 
Week 12
(05 Nov)
0:00 0:00 0:00 4 days 3:30
     
  • 1 day of funding seminar
  • 3 days of AAAI Fall Symposium
  • (2 days of travel)
  • D&D: Ward
Week 13
(12 Nov)
0:00 0:25 0:20 0:00 0:00
 
  • Shorter storyline
  • Intro outline
   
Week 14
(19 Nov)
0:00 0:30 2:45 0:10 0:00
 
  • Casual necessity (to simply necessity)
  • Marlinspike revising
  • GSO grant
 
Week 15
(26 Nov)
6:10 2:20 0:00 9:20 0:00
  • TIDSE04 reading
  • Experiment planning
  • Questionnaire writing
 
  • GSO grant paperwork
  • Web update
  • Scheduling proposal defense
 
Week 16
(03 Dec)
0:00 0:50 3:15 0:35 0:00
 
  • Survey questions
  • Scene connections
  • Proposal: Marlinspike design chapter
  • Organizing people
 
Exam Week
(10 Dec)
0:00 0:35 10:25 0:35 0:00
 
  • Experimental section of proposal
  • Proposal
  • Uploading; update emails
 
 
Xmas 01
(17 Dec)
0:00 0:00 9:15 3:55 0:00
   
  • Proposal
  • Writing a Java node-to-single-page parser
 
Xmas 02
(24 Dec)
0:00 0:00 14:15 3:55 0:00
   
  • Proposal
  • Parser finished
  • Producing single HTML proposal page
 
Xmas 03
(31 Dec)
0:00 0:00 5:10 2:25 0:00
   
  • Creating big PDF proposal doc
  • Appendices: Questionnaires, etc.
  • Update emails
  • ITIS presentation
 
Xmas 04
(06 Jan)
0:00 0:00 0:00 1:15 + 1 day 0:00
     
  • ITIS presentation
  • (Traveling to Mexico)
  • Attending ITIS workshop