How I lived in grad school...

How I lived in grad skool

Cool devices my friends have pointed out to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monome


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby

Cool concepts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_device
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-physical_system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient_intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_computing

These are all mostly unrelated to monome

21st century "libraries"

I propose that, in the near future, as funding and demand for public libraries partially dries up, due to competition from the internet, we introduce an equivalent concept of "public computer cluster".

The idea is that, much as libraries give everyone, even those without homes, bank accounts, credit, etc, access to books and a place to read them, municipalities of the future could fund open public computer clusters, where anyone can just walk in, and grab a terminal with a web browser.

Of course, I got this idea by actually looking at libraries, which are beginning to offer this in addition to "books and a place to read them", but I didn't really grasp how important this service would be until today. Personally, I still like having a public "books and a place to read them" building, but I could imagine public buildings solely devoted to public computer access, something like the computer labs from college, with a hybrid librarian/helpdesk/sysadmin managing it.

filters

Testing blog filter : my intent here is to have my home page (http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~mds2) grab my blog, filter posts with the "news" tag into a section called "news" and posts with the "blog" tag into a section called "blog"

Employment

I have now joined the workforce : this Monday I will start work at Hooked Wireless

doctored

I officially have my PhD, my thesis is available at http://tintoretto.ucsd.edu/jorge/group/data/PhDThesis-MikeSchuresko-09.pdf

First post

The "news" section is now synced to my new blog.