Gregory Dudek's comments on technology, science, and education http://www.dudek.org/blog/ en-us http://www.dudek.org/blog/188 The main reviewing periods for Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) and for the Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) are both done. RSS is not the the reviewers response phase to be followed by discussions and an Area Chairs meeting in LA at tweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/187 This site was unavailable in part of Feb 2010 and some of early March. Although the server itself was running, the upstream DNS server was having problems. http://www.dudek.org/blog/186 On the weekend, I went with my old friend Robbie Drummond and his girlfriend Kat to the "Bodies" exhibit here in Montreal. hat exhibit includes, among other things, a plastic mold of some the human circulatory system and it's incredible branching strweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/185 I was at Memorial University and the Institute for Ocean Technology in Newfoundland giving at talk. I saw their huge ice tank, sea gliders and some other ocean-going robots. http://www.dudek.org/blog/184 Well, the robot field trials I mention in my last report took place as planned. While we tested the robot in warm water and that was great, the schedule was grueling with long days and 3 or more simultaneous experiments taking place most of the time.weofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/183 We leave for our Sea Trials in just 36 hours or so. One more long day. The last week has been a wild ride and many software and hardware systems for our robots got a final checkout and some fine tuning. Of course, there was also a mad rush to includeweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/182 Air Canada now allows frequent flyers to track their annual activity. In 2009 is seems I flew 33 segments on Air Canada. That's sickening... No wonder I don't find flying that exciting any more! http://www.dudek.org/blog/181 In late December I acted as a plenary speaker at the EVIC Robotics Summer School in Santiago Chile. The Summer School seemed good with a nice selection of talks and poster presentations. In particular I visited the lab of Javier Ruiz-del-Solar at theweofije... http://www.dudek.org/blog/180 This post deals with Digi's Xbee modules, Zigbee firmware and with non-windows software I wrote for editing the Xbee parameters from the command line. The software xbee-gdxctu is written in Python, runs on OS X and Linux, and allows Xbee parameters to be queried and set. http://www.dudek.org/blog/179 A talk on how automated recommendation systems work and how recommendz.comm uses personalization and context.