Back-up!

Published 18 October 07 09:00 PM | robyn.owens 

I was told today that one of our postgraduate students had her laptop stolen last night while working in Queensland. The computer contained practically all her research work and writing and she has lost almost all her material including data and photocopies of material she got on inter-library loan over the past 9 months. This has got to be one of the worst nightmares you can have as a research student (although that does open up the challenge of posts describing what some of the others could be).

Don't forget one of Karen's original blogs - back-up whenever and wherever possible. 

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# sky said on October 19, 2007 8:24 AM:

I get massively paranoid about this kind of thing when I'm travelling. In Nairobi (which numerous people I met called 'Nairobbery') I went to great lengths to have my laptop and the thumb drive my thesis is backed up on stored in different places.

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About robyn.owens

I started my academic life doing a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics at UWA before going to Oxford to complete an MSc and a DPhil, also in Mathematics. I then spent three years in Paris at l'Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis and going to lots of movies before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician. I have lectured in Maths and Computer Science at UWA, as well as for short periods at Berkeley, The University of Canterbury in Christchurch, and Prince Songkla University in Thailand. My research has focussed on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation.