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In Remembrance of Professor William F. Schreiber

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Nov 212009

Professor William F. Schreiber was my Ph.D. thesis advisor. He passed away in October 2009 at the age of 84. This article in the Boston Globe describes a bit about his life. His remembrance ceremony was held at the MIT Faculty Club on November 21, 2009. The room was packed with people who came to celebrate his life. His family, friends, colleagues, and former students attended, many of us flying in from across the country.

I have the honor of being Professor Schreiber’s last Ph.D. student. I was invited to be one of the speakers at his remembrance. These are the words that I shared in memory of Professor Schreiber.  Please feel free to share your Schreiber-isms and memories of Professor Schreiber below.

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From cameraman to camerawoman in NIR imaging research

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Nov 142009

In the world of image processing research, it is important to have standard test images so people can compare their results. The cameraman image is a test image that has been used for decades.  It can be found in many image processing textbooks and homework problems.

The Cameraman image is widely used as a test image for image processing research.

The Cameraman image is widely used as a test image for image processing research.

Imaging and photography has come quite a long ways since then.  Just for fun, here are a couple pictures I took during my trip to Cairo Egypt for ICIP 2009 and a brief introduction to some research that Professor Sabine Süsstrunk presented on Near-Infrared Imaging to improve digital photography in the years to come.

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Pyramids and the Sphynx: People pictures

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Nov 122009

Here are some people pictures we took by the Pyramids and the Sphynx during my trip to Egypt in Nov 2009.

The first picture is the Step Pyramid in a town called Sakkara which has 16 pyramids. It turns out that there are many different types of pyramids, and it took some experimentation to find the shape that worked best. I’ll post more on that later.

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Riding smiling camels at night

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Nov 102009

I spent some time with the camels in the Egyptian desert at night, with the beautifully lit Pyramids of Giza in the distance. I’m sharing a few pictures that we took. I don’t know much about camels, but this seemed like a particularly happy crew.

The first picture has our calm, cool, and collected camel.  Notice his elegant stature, which is accentuated by the blue glow of the pyramid in the distance.

Camels relaxing in the desert with the pyramids glowing in the distance.

Camels relaxing in the desert with the pyramids glowing in the distance.

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The Pyramids of Giza at Night

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Nov 102009

I had the opportunity to be in Cairo, Egypt for ICIP 2009.  The banquet dinner was held in a tent in the desert at a spot where we could see the Pyramids of Giza at night.  While many people have seen pictures of the pyramids during the day, fewer people have seen pictures of the pyramids at night.  I am sharing a couple night pictures I took of the pyramids.  It is quite humbling to reflect on the fact that these pyramids are about 4500 years old!  Enjoy!

The Pyramids of Giza at night.

The Pyramids of Giza at night.

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A wee career tip: If you fall down- Get up!

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Sep 012009

You may know that I love playing team sports and applying those learnings to my career. One of my top ten career tips is to make your career a team sport. Here’s another lesson gleaned from playing team sports. Continue reading »

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Brasberries, bread, and cheese

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Aug 252009
Brasberries, bread, and cheese

Brasberries, bread, and cheese

Just a quick update to let you know that I served brasberries to real guests last weekend.  I arranged the brasberries on a bed of rasberries and blueberries and set them next to bread and cheese and a bottle of wine. This was all placed on my island, which is the centerpiece of my living/dining/kitchen area. My guests brought a chocolate mousse cheesecake, and the brasberries matched splendidly. This shows the versatility of the brasberry, which can be served as an appetizer, along side the main course, or with or as dessert. Continue reading »

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Top ten tips for doing business in Asia

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Aug 192009

The NY Times published an article about President Bill Clinton’s visit to North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-il about releasing the two imprisoned American reporters, Laura Ling and Euna Lee. The result was simple and surprising- they were released! I found this article particularly interesting because it describes not only the result, but the approach that was used to achieve it. The article included the approach that was used for the meeting request and the meeting itself. As I read the article, I saw many parallels with the experiences that I have had when doing business in Asia. This post contains ten tips for doing business in Asia which I gleaned from this article and my experiences, which includes successes and failures. Continue reading »

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Fruit for thought: Brasberries

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Aug 162009

brasberryI just wanted to share my invention of the day: The Brasberry!

The ingredients:

  • 1 blueberry (sweet)
  • 1 rasberry (sweet or tart)

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Social cloud technology in the fabric of the Internet

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Aug 152009
tweetsh

tweetsh

A shell for Twitter

Remember the good old days when you had a terminal screen and you typed ls, cd, and man? And, if you were a little more advanced, you might have used pushd, popd, cat, head, and tail. Well, there is a very alpha project called tweetsh. Tweetsh is a command-line shell interface for Twitter. It treats Twitter users/tweets as a big directory/file system and lets you access it with basic shell commands. Very cute and clever.

From what I can tell, this project is one guy in Amman-Jordan hacking for four days, so understandably there are still some bugs in it. But I think it’s cool in that geeky sort of way, and TechCrunch thought it was noteworthy, too.  And in the comments of the TechCrunch articles are a few other back-to-basics Twitter interfaces around such as a Ubiquity plugin for FireFox and a Twitter wrapper for emacs.

These are geeky cool, but I think they represent (or at least make me think about) a more significant trend. Let’s take a closer look. Continue reading »

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