Pan Yu's Home Page

My Blog is up (Oct 22, 2004)

Web blog is supposed to be something revolutionary, truly it is. Despite the professional web design and the instant set up convenience for non-web-experts, the super accessibility (through email, vioce mail and even SMS) it offers makes recording personal thoughts extremely easy. Accessibility is always an very important issue in the sense of convenience and bussiness. At present mobile devices like handphones or PDAs with GPRS offers the most accessibility. However, as the last slide of a keynote speaker on the Digital Convergence conference showed, battery life have become the biggest obstacle for portable devices. Researches about power preserving and efficiency are tommorrow's enable techniques. However, till now, I'm not sure about why fuel battery is still not commercial available even though it is developed a few years ago.

About My Name (May 11, 2004)

My name is 潘宇, and it's PinYin form is "Pan Yu". PinYin are Chinese phonetic symbols, they are like English letters but actually not (you can find an introduction to PinYin on wikipedia here) . Most foreigners can pronouce "Pan" quite well because of the famous Peter Pan, but they cannot find a way to speak "Yu" which is indeed "Yü" -- a sound between "Yi" and "You". Kinda of strange thing is that I can pronouce even the most lengthy Indian names quite well, but theIndian labmates cannot speak the shortest "Yu". I'll keep on training them Chinese, until one day my name is clearly correctly explicitly spoken out till when I guarantee they will pass Chinese level 6.

Although short, Pan Yu is full of meanings. I was born in Kunming, but my origin is LiuHe in Jiang Su province. LiuHe in Chinese means six jointed, the six refers to east, south, west, north, upside and downside, jointed is the universe. Pan in Chinese soulds like another word meaning "expecting". So altogether "Pan Yu" means "expecting to returning to LiuHe". When I was very young, there was a catching sentence called "攀登宇宙高峰" (climbing up the peak of the universe), my mom told me my name was from that sentence, :D, so sometimes, I felt like I'm the One and meant to do something great, given the heavy name I'm carrying :D:D

Finally up my home page (May 10, 2004)

It's really strange for a guy like me to realize the importance of having my home page up. All is for the going of my first conference -- DAC 2004. I've been an ignorant people for a long time, till recently I felt I really delayed doing a lot of things. I changed my dorm address (which I shifted to about ten month year ago) associated with my bank account, got a debit card which can be used for conference registration and bill payment outside Singapore, obtained an IEEE student membership to get discounted registration rate, and etc... And the homepage, yes, theoretically it's for the conference attendees to know about me and my research, practically it's targeting for the ones who have some intention to share one hotel room with me :-) ... Things got some changes when I'm composing it, the pages seem good looking and content filled in my mind. I've always been a thoughtful (daydreaming) person, in some particular sense of course, so let my homepage cultivated by my awful thoughts!

Being Existing As (May 10, 2004)

Being born in the last few days of 1970's in the Spring city of China -- Kunming, it's hard to say that I'm really among the 70's generation. One fact I can't escape and am pround of is that, I'm among the generation of the largest population, experienced and am experiencing the drastic society changes, country boom and the most intensive competition ever happened to my homeland China -- the world's most ancient culture body. Being a Chinese abroad means bearing the complexity mixture of historical pride and humiliation, constantly blaming power abused and irrational Chinese social practice, and having the emotion of "hating the inablity of iron turning into steel"; but, it also means, I have the responsibility and can't miss the chance of going back for my homeland and building it better. I hope my knowledge and energy may influence people one day and fulfill the mission of our generation's existence.