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Tersepit Salam, Aku kena sambung study(majikan wajibkan) dalam tahun ni. In fact kalo dalam bulan September ni aku tak sambung majikan akan mula potong elaun rumah RM450 sebulan (dari RM700 jadi RM250). Dalam tu jugak biasiswa pergi oversea limited, aku ni memang selama ni study local, nak merasa pergi oversea. Ada apply pergi Australia tapi offer letter tak dapat lagi, 2 bulan lagi baru tau jawapan. Sekarang ni Julai 2009, maknanya bulan Sept baru tau jawapan, tapi tak semestinya bulan Sep kene sambung.. mungkin October, mungkin Nov. (tapi elaun tetap kena potong sebab exceed). Dan takde jaminan dapat tempat sebab berebut allocation dengan orang lain . Last time kontek HR sini kata tinggal satu je oversea allocation. Kalo buat local, takde masalah (USM) anytime. Tapi kalo pergi UTM utk research kena masuk Disember(dan elaun rumah tetap kena potong sampai tarikh admission, AFAIK). Memandangkan aku ada wife, dia pun kena tempias mana-mana keputusan aku buat, samada pergi USM, UTM ataupu...

List of CS schools in US which offering Phd Refer here

Online Interview I gonna have online interview this Wednesday 2PM (NL time). Good luck to me

Louisiana @ Lafayette! Mr/Ms Najmi, Your qualifications appear to be good, and we will be pleased to consider your application. If you will give your mailing address, I will ask our office to send you our application packet, with all forms and requirements of our programs. You may wish to visit our web site at http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/ and that of the Graduate School http://www.louisiana.edu/Academic/GradSchool/ . Fee schedules will be at http://bursar.louisiana.edu/ . You may also apply online. Deadlines for application are 1 November for Spring, and 1 April for Fall, if you wish to be considered for assistantship. CACS and the Graduate School require a BS degree with GPA >= 2.75, or First Class honors from universities using that system. We require the GRE, General Test, with GRE-V >= 380, Q >= 600, and TOEFL >= 80(new online). --------- CACS, ULL tapi baru ni masa Gustav alert tu dengornya area selatan2 ni la yang kelam kabut kena. Ish ish... sukarnya!

As Time Goes By.... Hi Najmi, The best way to figure out if I'd like to have you as a PhD student, and if you'd like to have me as your advisor, would be to meet and talk. We can do that once you start USC in Fall. I looked over your CV and papers you sent. This is nice work for BSc degree. What you want to do during your MS and PhD is to expand on the research part. Best way to do this, and also to improve writing style and language, is to read a lot of research papers so that would be my first suggestion. Look at top security conferences such as USENIX, CCS or security papers at networking conferences SIGCOMM, Infocom, NDSS and NSDI. The length of the study depends on both your topic and your work. You usually are ready to graduate once you had 3-5 papers from your topic published at good conferences. Publishing takes time and that's the major source that defines when one can graduate. That, and finishing the work on the topic - but since you need to finish the work anywa...

Am I really fit to that_great_school Response from one prof that I emailed: Hello, I am no longer taking PhD students in the area of security. My suggestion is that you apply to Purdue , Dartmouth, George Mason, Johns Hopkins . Best wishes on your education. --prof Oh boy!

Coming soon Thank you very much for interest in our program. congratulation , your paper entitled: 1. Effective Malware Analysis with Nepenthes has been accepted and approved by our committee to present for our conference. as for the presentations , shall you have any notes/handouts(ie:power point slides) to be distributed, please submit to us at least a day before the actual presentation day for preparation. to remind you, the fee for each paper is RM650.00 payable on the registration day. thank you very much and congratulation again ------------------------------ MyEduSec 2008 Striving Towards Secured Information http://www.udm.edu.my/ myedusec/2008/

Libang-libu (the lemma of choices) Don't ask me what it meant, it just words that I think it fun to put as my topic today. I am pretty much snowed under with tremendous workload ... teaching 3 sections with ~120 students, meetings, seminars in the workplace.. and what not. Alas, I'm not forgetting my pursuit for Phd ... despite I'm worrying whether I'm on par with the rest of the CS scientist (wannabe). Thinking about go to States, looking that_many people from Asia going there, and lotsof them even become the faculty members. Not I'm thinking to become like them(though I admit it is kinda pride working as a faculty member in a place where CS was borned). Now that one thing I don't really like about applying to States is that you_have_to_spend_USDs_for_just_applying. Unlike applying for .AU, where you just simply go to IDP, and send your letters, etc and *they will take care most of the stuffs for you for FREE*... If I'm applying for States, means I've t...

Phd Phone Interview I was interviewed by Dr Maria Papadaki from Plymouth Univ, UK regarding my Phd application. There were several Malaysians, and my officemate is doing her research phd there as well. It took for about 45 minutes to discuss things related to the research, the process, funding etc. At first I forgot that UK is included in country which uses DST for their time. Somehow the discussion was OK, but of course given the communication distance, there was jitters. Reminded me to Maxis's ad where people only yelled GOAL after a shortwhile. Same goes . Hopefully I'll get conditional offer, prior to taking IELTS. Now that I can't confirmed the place, there's possibility of going places taking GRE/TOEFL, though it's tough. Are you the like of taking *hard* problem as breakfast?

Reply for previous Purdue/CERIAS admission's pos taken from here Since the commenter using blogger's profile but I can't access his blog, this Prof might suits the profile > here What an honour to have his visit to my lair here.. anyway this were his words: All students are charged an application fee to help cover processing costs. As it is, there are many thousands of applications to the university each year. Applications for grad programs at Purdue are considered by committees of faculty. They look at issues such as transcripts of grades, quality of undergrad program, the student essays, and especially the recommendations. Scores on tests are examined -- especially TOEFL -- and some departments look at GRE scores. The admissions committee picks the students who the committee believes will do well in the program. If there are more qualified candidates than there are positions in the incoming class, then the students are ranked by the committee and the top ones taken to ...

hmm... in my dreamm..! The admission committee makes the decision in October for spring admission and in January for fall admission for applicants who have submitted their applicaiton. You must decide on your own whetherto apply or not. Make sure you met the admission requirements listed here : Regards, R ---------------------------------------- R Department of Computer Science Lawson Computer Science Building Room 1137 B Purdue University 305 North University Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2107 USA Phone: (765)494-xxxx Fax: (765)494-xxxx E-mail: xxx@cs.purdue.edu www.cs.purdue.edu/academic_programs/graduate -----Original Message----- From: me Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:25 AM To: R Subject: Re: Phd in CS/Cerias Hello, I would like to know how do you select the students, since I've to pay USD55 for the application-so I've to be sure that chances probability to get in. I ask this since CERIAS did not require GRE results for admission, but it seems that the it received qu...

Phd Quest? :=p It's royal pain in the back (weh, it should be harsher). Sent e-mails to the prospective supervisor.. asking for updates.. Edith Cowan Univ: My friend said better go for public univ in Western AU.. but I did checked in Wiki ECU is a public univ.. well said, since ECU having good time doing research in network security ... asked and the Dr said please apply.. Victoria Wellington: NOT YET! RMIT: Dear mnajem, Sure.... I am happy to supervise you . Have you already applied to RMIT International? As you will starting in next year, it would be great to do some english courses for reading and writing, even if you have a good IELTS. I am currently a research project in the area of security in "X" systems (with other schools - Engineering and Maths), sponsored by the university. It involves the protection of entreprise//"X" networks again all the various attacks. IDS are one of the techniques, but there are other ones. The security researchers in RMIT...

Nice Updates -I'm in the office of Deputy Dean Student Affair now. For some unknown reason I was being appointed. Work as usual. -Will attend marriage course this week.. pfft I chose to go outside which worth RM80 because I'm too shy for RM20 course provided along with the student. Well, you know, I might get my face red ... blushing haha. -For the Phd Quest(as what Usin said), yesterday Dr Colin told me he will ask for Dr George Mohay consideration for my application... hopefully I can get the answer faster. Victoria Wellington still yet to answer my email.. be patient. To my fellow friend, I'll be happy if you can come to my hometown in Perak.. ;) (Well, just wondering who'll drop to my blog anyway.. the traffic feeds seems so busy but hardly to get my writings commented) EOF.

Spinning circus -contacted prospective supervisor. One institution agreed but since I checked with my fellow friend who still carrying his phd there in Western AU he said try to find some other top U. -waiting for Victoria Wellington Univ's answer. Seems my research interest is there, but Dr Ian is yet to reply. Keep patient. -QUT. The Dr whom I dealt with said I've to wait first for his friend who now in overseas so that he can discuss with regard to my research interest. Thanks Dr, you're very much did very quick responses! -Univ of Queensland... hmm nothing much on computer systems instead on security surveillance. But I've to ask them first. Why I insist, since UoQ have a good rank. Second, because I might mislook for the appropriate scholar whom name wasn't there(?). -contacted UMICH, Univ of Tennessee, Memphis. For UMICH I bet it is almost impossible since the standard is pretty much high. Yet I'm a bit reluctant to take GRE!(haha). But since there are no...