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Bodo von Billerbeck
bodo billerbeck, 1998, outside building 8, rmit, melbourne, australia


My details:

I don't have an office on campus. The best way to contact me is via email (billerbeck (AT) gmail (DOT) com).
I'm currently working for Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK as an applied researcher in the information retrieval group. Until July 2008 I will be located in Melbourne, Australia.
I completed my PhD at the School of Computer Science and Information Technologies within RMIT University, working with the Search Engine Group, with Justin Zobel as senior supervisor and Falk Scholer as my second supervisor.
My research topic was Efficient Query Expansion.

List of my publications.

Online CV

miscellaneous:

A subject I took ages ago involved 3D graphics.

Some useful stuff for CS833 students (on how to setup MySQL and apache; these pages were put up in 2001 and are probably way out of date by now; however I will leave them on this page since every now and then I'm still told that they are useful).

Some pictures of the SEG ski trip August 2003 (courtesy of Jelita Asian).
Some more skiing pictures and movies of the smaller August 2004 trip (courtesy of Kwong Lai).
Pictures of our house warming in Coburg (2003).
Pictures of my trip to SPIRE 2004.

some links

If you are not convinced yet that is the *only* editor, then maybe you haven't seen the tips yet.
Also see my .vimrc file and copy it to get started (thanks to Saied Tahaghoghi).
A very good article on how PhD theses are examined.
Don't embarras yourself and do some weird queries on Google.

unix and other tools:

Need to convert jpg to ps?
Or ps to gif?
Want to use an alternative to Power Point while preparing presentations? Use PPower4!
Having trouble with footnotes in floating tables with Latex? Check out the system of commands that you need to insert into your tex file before the \begin{document} flag. Also have a look at my example of how to use it.


Sample discussion amongst PhD students:

(25th of October 2002)
Ranjan: "What are you doing?"
Me: "Procrastinating."
Ranjan: "At least you are doing something."
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