Gregory Dudek's comments on technology, science, and education http://www.dudek.org/blog/ en-us http://www.dudek.org/blog/238 Natasha (my daughter) was in Europe and was heading home today for the start of classes. Her plane had to turn around, however, because there was a fire on board! All the passengers were OK, but the plane had to dump fuel in the sea and go to Amsterdweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/237 Computer science is becoming increasing popular again, after a huge upswing in the 1990's, a lull after the dot-com meltdown in 2001 and a gradual growth since then. In the last few years computer science departments all across the US and Canada haveweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/236 For a long time I have been using the Zope Photo product to create on-line image sets. I have been managing a branch on my own for Zope2, and realized I should release it since the original branch has become obsolete. The Photo product (i.e. package)weofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/235 I am buying these books for Christmas (for people who don't read my blog). A bit of classic science fiction, and some contemporary high-rated sports and fitness. With luck, I might get to read some of these on the rebound. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribeweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/234 I the last couple of weeks I became the parent of a new baby. Oddly. there are quite a few other parents. Also, our child has 6 legs, 3 eyes, and aluminum body. We have recently constructed the latest robot in the Aqua family, which has a few new desweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/233 Quote of the day (Montreal graphs): To compare the performance of exploration and validation, both algorithms were tested on a variety of random graphs. The first set of parameterized random graphs was generated by starting with a complete 2D latticeweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/228 Today I have a one-hour talk at the IEEE 9th International Symposium on Robotics and Sensor Environments (ROSE). I talked about our work in underwater robotics (as I often do) and specifically dealt with summarization, terrain identification and a tiweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/227 In the not-such-good-news department, the union that represents the clerical and technical staff at McGIll University (MUNACA) have had a strike vote and seem certain to go on a general strike Thursday September 1st at 6am. They seem to be are askingweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/225 I am lucky enough to work in a milieu where I meet smart teenagers and twenty-somethings all the time, and they are often brilliant. Of course, being relatively young they tend to be relatively short on experience. Most of the time, though, they knowweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/224 We went to see the "Tribute to Nerds" show at the annual Montreal Comedy Festival last night. It was totally sold out. There were some great highlights and I especially liked the spot by Kumail NANJIANI, but a substantial fraction the comedy from sevweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/223 Last week I was at the Google Faculty Summit in New York City. It is was interesting how careful the Google people were about avoiding "creepy" applications. They purposely avoid a lot of data cross linking just to be "clean", more so than I had expeweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/222 While flying to Taipei I had a stopover in Hong Kong. I figured I wanted to scoot into town and check it out. The word on the web regarding the feasibility of this, and how long it takes, was inconclusive. Well on the way to Taipei I tried out a pracweofije...