tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57755880792122624072011-04-21T11:13:27.541-07:00For that great feeling of getting things done: Computing, Music, and Foodcornholiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06419115913497473586noreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775588079212262407.post-61592327509596533632008-07-13T04:14:00.000-07:002008-07-13T05:42:22.439-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_FKTBttVgbJw/SHnt0E2Y31I/AAAAAAAAAAw/hQkscDwLtFA/s1600-h/turing.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_FKTBttVgbJw/SHnt0E2Y31I/AAAAAAAAAAw/hQkscDwLtFA/s200/turing.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222466721823645522" /></a>Having recently completed a <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~gewang/thesis.html">PhD thesis</a> in Computer Science at Princeton, I am... well really glad to be done.  As much as I dreaded writing the thing pretty much every step of the way, it was surprisingly satisfying and relief-inducing to finish.  While visiting one of my committee members, Andrew Appel, via his <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/">homepage</a>, I stumbled upon a recent article by PAW (Princeton Alumni Weekly, a um weekly publication for uh Princeton alums) that provided a ranked list of the <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW07-08/07-0123/features_the25.html">25 most influential Princeton alumni of all times</a>.  <-- Check it out.  Alan Turing (pictured), the patron saint of computers and computists, rang in at #2 -- between Presidents James Madison and "Woody Woo" Wilson.  Amazingly, only one woman, Wendy Kopp (#15), made the panel-selected list.  #25 is a tie.  If I were on the panel, I might have preferred to just do the top 24...  <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5775588079212262407-6159232750959653363?l=productivityplacebo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>gehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11273413854669956761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775588079212262407.post-16927194263428653892008-07-07T00:32:00.001-07:002008-07-07T01:05:05.127-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/uh/eyePhone/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_eA-4kpFGAxk/SHHIgUKntCI/AAAAAAAAAAg/Hf6HHzuYTnk/s200/eyePhone-01-s.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220173900593738786" border="0" /></a>It started out as an idea at dinner one night, we took a picture of my eyes with the iPhone and superimposed it over someone else. Days later, after a BBQ at <a href="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/">CCRMA</a>, a few of us took it a step further and photographed it. For this, we had to use three phones: one iPhone to display the eyes, a second iPhone to take the picture, and a third (a RAZR) to provide the right lighting (it was dusk). And days later, at yet another BBQ, we had it down. Here are the results of what we call: <a href="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/uh/eyePhone/">eyePhone: making Mashed Photatoes</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5775588079212262407-1692719426342865389?l=productivityplacebo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cornholiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06419115913497473586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775588079212262407.post-2015886237865395132008-07-05T23:10:00.000-07:002008-07-05T23:12:18.011-07:00Where am I? Who am I? What...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5775588079212262407-201588623786539513?l=productivityplacebo.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>cornholiushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06419115913497473586noreply@blogger.com0