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July 19, 2006
[Research] Links from the Microsoft Faculty Summit, day 2.
- Microsoft Research Group Shot: Looks like a fun way to solve the group photo problem.
- XNA The big question is: when can I download one to play with? Very easy to get up and running with the Game class (allegedly). GameLoop is a primitive. The main methods in game tick are update world and render world. This guy Dave Weller is part of the XNA game see Let's kill Dave.
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July 17, 2006
[Research] Links from Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Day 1
A few of the relevant links are:
- Rising Above The Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Apparently, this is a well-known recent report that lays out some of the problems and suggests solutions.
- National Center for Women and Information Technology. Remarks by the CEO suggested that taking a top-down problem-oriented approach will attract the best men and women to our discipline. We are a stealth discipline in which nobody, including those that make decisions, know what we do.
- Howard U. skins challenge. An interesting approach to getting people into computing.
- InkTalk program An enabling technology for people with speach impediments.
- Threads in a BS in CS at Georgia Tech
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July 14, 2006
[Research] Rendering terrain in time-varying conditions
We've recently completed a camera control system for capturing images of Squaw Peak, in Provo, Utah, throughout the day and pairing the resulting images with weather information. Our goal is to develop efficient methods for rendering the terrain and sky in the presence of time-varying conditions--such as the weather and time of day. The images (not very many so far...) and a more detailed description of the project are now available.
Contact me if you'd like to participate in or support the project. It will be fun. Just the other day I was cruising around on the back of Squaw Peak at 7700 feet with a 4wd truck, hiking shoes, a GPS and a camera to collect images of a weather monitoring site and get a better understanding of it's location relative to the camera site.
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