I'm sitting here at the final event of day one of CUTC 2005. I am not sure about the presentations yet, I think my background of involvement with CUSEC have got me to expect something else. CUTC seems to be much less academic. Agreed some of the presentations where quite interesting, but some other ones seems like a big recruitment event (i.e. BELL).

I learned a few things about ECC, which is being developed by SUN. This new Asymmetric Encryption algorithm seems to be very cool given that it much much faster than RSA. SUN also showed off their Mini servers (not mini as in the Mac Mini, but mini as in a 25C coin).

The Gadget Guy show was cool, but I had seen most of the gadgets already, except for the cool USB GPS.

Now listening to a SUPER rich dude that is younger than me, I have this feeling that I should push my ideas a bit further, otherwise they won't go very far.