Gregory Dudek's comments on technology, science, and education http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/ en-us http://www.dudek.org/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/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/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/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/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/dudek.org/blog/179 A talk on how automated recommendation systems work and how recommendz.comm uses personalization and context. http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/178 MacLeans magazine has announced their annual ranking of Canadian universities. They rank most Canadian universities and McGill comes out on top for the fifth year in a row. http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/177 Last week I was in Mexico and gave a keynote talk at the International Congress on Multidisciplinary Research at Monterrey Tec (more formally Tecnologico de Monterrey). The general chair was Dr. Marco Iv í an Ram < irez-Sosa Mor á an http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/176 From an article in the Montreal Gazette we have the following exerpt: McGill ranks No. 18 in world BY PEGGY CURRAN, THE GAZETTE OCTOBER 7, 2009 McGill University's very good week just got better. The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankingweofije... http://www.dudek.org/dudek.org/blog/175 Every year I try to watch a few meteor showers. This year the conditions for the Perseids, in August, were exceptionally good. I managed to get out a each evening and do some viewing and even snap some pictures. Here's my favorite picture of a meteorweofije...