My made-up zen story

I spent about a decade meditating inside a cave, against a wall. Other people were waiting for me. I left them almost burried in the cold of the snow. Now I rise and walk. Threading lightly, steadily. With other people, I will entertain and enjoy. I will practice more martial arts. I hope true enlightenment will be reached through everyone, together, performing the true hacking of modern thinking machines. With these hopes I start a new stage in life.

Ignoring Mortality We Worship Mediocrity (replay)

I am reposting one of the deepest posts in this blog (http://maverickranter.blogspot.com/2009/01/ignoring-mortality-we-worship.html): This speech from Steve Jobs is a good inspiration for us to gain courage to be innovative and bold In the same vein, I dedicate this song to Steve: Bad Religion - In so Many Ways

The new Computer Vision book

If you'd like to get a broad view of what I work with, take a look at the latest book, launched in November 2010, that represents the state-of-the-art, "Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications", by Richard Szeliski. The digital version of this book is freely available as a PDF at the author's website http://szeliski.org/Book. And the cover reflects 3D reconstruction algorithms that I've been trying to extend through the use of curve and surface differential geometry!

Brown University has gone Google

Brown switched to Google apps. I mean, the entire Brown University switched to Google (students, professors, and remaining staff): http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/brown-university-has-gone-google.html

CVPR 2010 paper accepted

Hi, my paper was accepted for the IEEE Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. It is one of the major 3 conferences in my field. My paper is entitled "3D Curve Sketch: Flexible Curve-Based Stereo Reconstruction and Calibration".

Google's definition of 'Open'

Interesting article at google about the meaning of Open here.

Google Image Swirl

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/explore-images-with-google-image-swirl.html