[[!meta title="XMPP and the Internet of Things (Seminar wrap-up)"]] [[!meta author="rohieb"]] [[!meta license="CC-BY-SA 3.0"]] [[!img defaults size=x200]] As I’m currently working to get a master’s degree in university, I had to write a seminar paper. I got lucky and the topic “Chatty Things – Making the Internet of Things Readily Usable with XMPP” sounded very interesting to me :-) As the title suggests, the paper describes how the [XMPP][] protocol can be employed to facilitate user access to smart devices in the [Internet of Things][IoT], and some thoughts on preventing information overflow on the user. If this sounds interesting to you as well, you should read my [paper][] or scroll through the [presentation slides][pres] ;-) The paper is licensed as [CC BY-ND 3.0][ccbynd] (of course, you shouldn’t use it for *your own* paper :P), the presentation slides are [CC BY-SA 3.0][ccbysa], and if you want to re-use it, have a look at the [LATEX code][code]. [XMPP]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP "Wikipedia: XMPP" [IoT]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things "Wikipedia: Internet of Things" [ccbynd]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/ "Creative Commons: Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license" [ccbysa]: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ "Creative Commons: Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license" [code]: http://git.rohieb.name/skm-ma-ws1314.git "Git repository skm-ma-ws1314" [paper]: /docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-paper.pdf "Seminar paper (PDF)" [pres]: /docs/skm-ma-chatty-things-slides.pdf "Presentation slides (PDF)" Apart from the matter handled in the paper, I also acquired some additional skills: * Learn to motivate myself. The [Pomodoro technique][pomodoro], in conjunction with chocolatey sweets for extrinsic gratification, seems to work quite well for me. * Learn to use [TikZ][tikz] to draw figures in LATEX. I already wanted to use it for a while, but it seemed complex and have a steep learning curve. It turns out that the TikZ/PGF manual is very illustrative, and has an exhaustive index for easy skimming. * Learn to deliver a good(?) talk. I recently discovered [speaking.io][] by Zach Holman, and apparently the tips he gives there seem to work and I felt much more secure than on previous talks. Also: a lot of practice. And test sessions. And I ditched his advice on slide design, I like my slides with latex-beamer :P [pomodoro]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_method "Wikipedia: Pomodoro method" [tikz]: http://www.texample.net/tikz/ [speaking.io]: http://speaking.io [[!tag XMPP IoT Internet_of_Things university science engineering seminar LaTeX LaTeX_beamer PGF TikZ talk presentation speaking]]