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Pretty cool Infographic on Google tricks.  Didn’t know about the ~ operator for Google.  For the full size head over to HackCollege .

Though, I still like to ask Google natural language questions… if they have that many engineers they should be working on it.


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Lets just say that things are going well so far in Italy.


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Just got notice a week or two ago that I’ll be spending the summer in Italy!

As part of the IJCAI doctoral consortium I have received funding from the NSF to go work with Dr. Francesca Rossi at the University of Padova.  Right now we are just in the first stages of ( Read more... )

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I’ve always loved this quote:

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

-Kurt Vonnegut

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Just spent a very entertaining week in Germany.  I got to attend COMSOC 2010 which was a great experience!  I came away with some new ideas for work and some (possibly) new co-authors.  I don’t have any really good pictures from the trip but I’ll get something up here ( Read more... )

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It was a fun summer.  Got married, went to about 5 other weddings.  Got to see great friends, travel the country, go to Costa Rica, move apartments…. maybe a few other things I am forgetting?  Its been a heck of a summer, much like the last summer I took off in 2006.  Traveled ( Read more... )

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Just got done switching around the website for the 38th time.  I think the feel now is a little more professional.  I am attempting to consolidate this site into a catch-all as a resume site, teaching site, and blog.  Hopefully this plan doesn’t blow up in my face for some ( Read more... )

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Its been a busy 2 months here on the west coast.  Just had Will in town from DC and Turkey was here from Seattle last weekend.  Been spending a lot of time in The City and even more time driving around the Bay Area… or the hellacious suburb that passes for an urban area around here.

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So later this week I get to start doing some ARM development.  Using Atmel parts (AT91SAM7A3 for those interested).  There is a GNU tool chain so I can actually install stuff when I get the parts and don’t have to wait around for 3 weeks while I get a PO for the development ( Read more... )

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

So that would be 2 down and 2 to go on the road to the Ph.D.  Guess I am going to have to schedule some time to celebrate!