25.11.2010, Thursday Rehabilitation and Disability Research Theme School of Physiotherapy University of Otago Recovery of post-stroke patients. Pam Duncan, Duke University Normal, usual care improves patients considerably during 3 weeks – 6 months post stroke. After that, the usual care has little or no effect on improvement. Patients that are discharge continue steady decline between…
On Friday morning, twenty people from Information Science and Surveying departments started a 3 day long research retreat. The purpose of the retreat was to get away from the usual university environment, and spent some time reading and writing. There has been many social and integration events, lots of discussions, and obviously, long hours in…
Finishing a grant application. To get some data, spent few days reading WHO reports and stats. Depressing. there’s about 6.7b people in the world 36m die each year from non communicable diseases (cancers and cardiovascular for example). Many many more from communicable diseases. 1.6m die each year as a direct result of violence. 2.7b live…
Attending the Otago graphics group meeting and watching a selection of SIGGRAPH 2010 films. Awesome. These are just some random notes I’ve taken to remember the films I’ve watched. Japanese “Light something” movie, about fluffy things, and the girl, lying in the grass. Final scene on the eye of the grils, sparkling. “After and before”,…
Thursday, started at 14:45 or so, with a bit of delay. Lots of introductions and waffle before the competition has started. These are just some random notes I have taken during the presentations. First: prioritization in health care (how to share public funds). Trying to establish weights and modelol of how to prioritize cases based…
July 7th, 2010, Introduction by Graham McGregor. Saying what needs to be said. Doing what needs to be done. * Claire Atkins, Avatars, virtual environments Educating in SecondLife. Started 2006 first land purchase. Koru, the first NMIT island. Social focus. Experience. Live music, live video. 500k 2008 funding. The birth unit for the midwives….
Tuesday, 8th of February, 2010 9:10 – 10:00 Tobias Langlotz, Graz University of Technology around 100 people, 4 profs 2 in computer vision, 2 in computer graphics flat and non-flat surface tracking natural feature tracking NFT www.vidente.at panoMT project (on-the-fly panorama making) sensor fusion (kalmar filters + a range of sensor technologies) 10:05 – 10:30…
NOTES Polskie konferencje i Kluby: część ludzi mowi do siebie po imieniu, a czesc mowi per Pani/Pan. Powoduje to scisla segregacje na “naszych” i “obcych”. Podzial klubowy jest silny. International multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology Mragowo 2009, Poland * Day 1 ** 9:00-10:45 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Mobile Technologies for Social Change…
* Day 2 ** 8:30, session 1, stream A *** Juan J. Pardo (speaker), Manuel Nunez, M. Carmen Ruiz A novel formalism to represent collective intelligence in multi-agent systems Input Output mapping system for agent actions. Based on state machines and transitions. *** Robert Trypuz (speaker), Pawel Garbacz, Piotr Kulicki, Marek Lechniak A formal model…
ICCCI 2009 212 submissions 71 accepted 21 accepted to be published in LNAI 25 countries 3 days, 3 concurrent trucks Next year ICCCI2010 will be in September in Taiwan. Speakers: Nguyen Ryszard Kowalczyk, Melbourne Swiatek Zbigniew Huzar Wroclaw has 11 universities * Day 1 – Monday, October 5, 2009 ** Planary session: Roman Slowinski Poznan…