Posts filed under Education

01.19.2011

Friendship, a Basque Evening, and a 50mm

It will be yummy and a place I suspect no one has been……..curious? That’s what the email said last August. Back in 2004, some of my friends and I used to get together randomly and spend time with each other whenever we were free. Simply spontaneous and unplanned. Hours would turn into whole day affairs. [...]

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01.15.2011

Defining Moments and the Love of Photography

Since a few friends have asked me about getting into photography and I’ve noticed more and more people carrying DSLRs now and posting their photos on Facebook, I thought that it might be a good assumption that the general public has become more interested in photography. I had only been through a semester long photography [...]

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12.31.2010

Creativity, Learning, and Our Lives

When we were kids, we were encouraged to be creative. Drawing, coloring, and creating were part of the norm. Art was such a big part of our lives and even celebrated like trophys (kid’s drawings and creations and all). And making music was encouraged. We also had to learn the rules, though. Stay in between [...]

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01.24.2008

RIAA Violates Internet Standards

I dug around until I found that the information they were probably referring to was the Take It Off link which has their own instructions on how to turn off file-sharing in KaZaA .

… I ended up emailing the Security group at the University of Chicago asking them if they could add a redirect for that page and cc’d webmaster@musicunited.org (guessing that might be a valid address), but three days later:

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01.18.2008

Handwriting Recognition Progression

It had been awhile since I played with handwriting recognition. I remember the Newton and when I had to learn the special alphabet for the Palm III, my first PDA. I tried out my colleague’s Lenovo X61 tablet PC and was very impressed; I purposely wrote messy words, yet it still recognized my handwriting perfectly. [...]

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01.10.2008

Caught In The Battle

Originally written on May 24, 2007. Internet2 (aka I2), a high speed research network with over 200 universities, can also be used for transferring non-research related data like music or movie files. In April 2005, when I heard that the RIAA was going after people on Internet2, I remember asking my colleague, “How the hell [...]

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11.04.2007

Women in Computing

I recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women In Computing Conference in Orlando, FL. Nearly 1,400 women who were undergraduates, PhD students, faculty, staff, and other working professionals gathered to discuss technology and changing the future through computer science, information technology, research and engineering. It wasn’t so much as a “rah rah” event (as [...]

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10.26.2007

The Future of Technology

Earlier this month, a friend of mine who’s on the Board of Berkeley Engineering’s Dean’s Society invited me to accompany him to their event on “The Future of Technology” at the Googleplex. The talk focused on the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley and their involvement with technology. First year engineering courses in the college [...]

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