Today we have two professional software developers visiting the school and telling us on state of the industry. This is of course quite limited perspective. Distinction between skill and experience Skilled programmers often do the same task in a different way. The only thing that really matters is experience. Coding Katas As a…
Gjovik University College, PhD seminar. PhD students and candidates present their ideas and current literature reviews. Thomas Simon started with his project related to color blindness and researching various daltonization algorithms. Anne works also with color deficiencies while presenting maps and geographical information. Ibrahim investigates the use of mobile devices in the context of color…
Notes from the Radio interview with David Robinson. “Senior Consultant to Education International, the global federation of teachers unions, David Robinson is very unhappy at the way universities are being refocused for the purposes of commercial enterprise rather than academia and scholarship.” Paradox: governments and decision makers claim Universities and Higher Education is more important…
Wednesday morning: Rod Drury talks about New Zealand Internet connectivity (off-shore connectivity). Content and people matters more than technologies and pipes. Stimulate the uptake of fibre-to-home by combining TV, Sky, Netflix, iTunes to be available over combined pipes so that customer will purchase the connectivity due to better incentives. Foster debates, but limit trolling. Try…
Talk by Antti Aulasvirta from UIx group at HIIT. Typical pattern in HCI: H I C, with mobile devices the role of E (environment) becomes paramount. The picture is extended by E H, not only for “noise” but also for other cognitive cues and other factors. Walking reduces the performance of other tasks, roughly by…
Long train trips on Monday and Wednesday to and from Graz. Meeting with Parkinson Disease Summer School organiser, Dominika. Long lunch and good discussion. Planning collaborative efforts. Meeting with Andrzej, discussing his latest studies and research in the area of multi-valued Kauffman networks. Evening with Bartek, catching up. Long stories, lots of driving around, eating out….
16:00, spotkanie z Andrzejem Siec Kaufmann’a Wykladnik Deridy, wielkosc pokazujaca rozprzestrzenianie sie zmiany K wejsc do wezla, s poziomow sygnalow Symulacje uzywaja stala ilosc wejsc (K), wyjscie jest obliczane jako losowa funkcja (i w przypadku boolowskim, i w przypadku wielopoziomowym). damage wspolczynnik rozmnazania zmiany, Derida wykladnik spontaniczna stabilnosc boolowskich systemow kaufmanowskich Derida approximation Artykul z…
Today Technical University in Vienna (TU Wien) organised its biennial symposium dedicated to computer graphics: Visual Computing Trends 2011. There were several invited talks, and few hundred participants. The event was a great opportunity for, sometimes exciting and visionary, meeting and discussions concerning visual computing, and all aspects of computer graphics. The first presenter was…
It has been two weeks since I settled in TU Graz. The Computer Graphics and Augmented reality research group is hosting me. What a treat. The institute is about 30 amazingly smart people. Everything is well thought out, and well organised. The research meetings last for about 45 min, and have a typical agenda in…
Jurgen Schmidhuber talk notes: Markus Hutter: asymptotically fastest algorithm for all well-defined problems. As fast as the fastest f(x)-computer, save for factor 1+e, and f-specific constant. Kurt Godel, shows limits of math and computation by creating a formula that speaks about itself, claiming to be unprovable by an algorithmic theorem prover: either formula is true…