Coming to a close

The end of my first semester of grad school is almost at an end. My last assignment is due tomorrow, along with my last class. I've enjoyed both of my classes so much this semester! I hope you are all doing well. Christmas is approaching very rapidly. Fortunately, I am finished with the shopping that I have to do on my own. I am really looking forward to this break and getting some time to spend with friends, and hopefully getting to explore New England a little more. I don't start classes again until 1/23!

Our apartment is decorated for the holidays, and we both REALLY like how it turned out. Hopefully I can post a picture or two of our apartment.

I have no idea who has found this blog, so feel free to leave a comment or send me an e-mail and let me know you found me.


Well, that's all for now, back to work on my final project for Vision.

Really cool technology

I am starting to get involved with some research projects that are happening inside our graphics research group here at Brown. I am even working on this for my final project in my vision class. But, I thought I'd show you some of the amazing things that have already been completed in this area of research. The research topic is multi-touch displays. This allows direct interaction with a computer with more than just one mouse pointer as you can easily see in the videos that I've included below. These first videos are from Jeff Han, who is a researcher at NYU. Here is a demo he performed when he first unveiled his research to the public.



And another that shows more possibilities.



Similarly, another researcher, Johnny Lee at Carnegie Mellon has done some cool things that are related to multi-touch displays. But, here is another one of his videos that is a little bit different topic, but still very interesting.



Hope you guys like these videos. Another related project is the "Microsoft Surface" and there is a really cool video about it here:



That's it for now.