Anith Gopal

Computers and vision – what’s up with that? Things we do with our eyes without out a seconds thought are difficult for computers. From Scott Lum  (@ scottlum ) I learned about a page outlining Computer imaging & vision projects from Microsoft Research Fascinating stuff.

Computers and vision – what’s up with that? Things we do with our eyes without out a seconds thought are difficult for computers

In some respects I should be writing about SIGCSE today.

Interesting post, actually several, at the CSTA blog lately One is called Where Are All the High School Computer Science Students – and it brings up some interesting things about CS education. I would call them misconceptions. Computer Science is hard – Say what?

Dreamspark is a program that Microsoft first announced last year for college and university students.

  Alice Lipowicz posted this article in Washington Technology on February 12th, 2009 Midsize federal contractors with $5 million to $500 million in annual revenues are likely to be hardest hit by the new mandatory self-disclosure requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation, according to a government contracts expert. “This means the most to companies in the middle,” said Tony Fuller, a partner at Beers and Cutler law firm, during a forum in Washington today.

With the way the economy has been going lately it has never been more important to help students make the transition to regular employment on graduation. Microsoft is interested in helping students find entry-level jobs and internships in the Microsoft partner community — more than 10,000 U.S. companies.

The closing keynote TCEA was given by Dr. Robert Ballard of oceanographic explorer fame. It was a talk that was both interesting and inspiring

Microsoft just released a web site at www.areyoucertifiable.com that just may be the way to find out if you are ready for a professional certification. There are two sets of questions/quizzes to try out – IT Professional and Developer. The questions are a mix of serious technical questions that could have been ripped right from the regular certification exams and the occasional pop culture (well geek culture) trivia question.

Today I attended several sessions. One was on using robots in computer science classes. The presenter said that girls really liked working with the robots.

So I arrived in Austin Monday evening and settled down at my hotel. I’m a short walk from the convention center which I’m pretty pleased about. Today was a sort of pre-conference day for me.

OMG apparently there are reports of frozen water falling FROM THE SKY!! and landing ON THE GROUND!!  London and Reading declare state of emergency, cancel all buses and trains.  Nobody can get into work today so meetings start to get cancelled due to the weather… and then… the penny drops… don’t we have this amazing technology that lets us work from home? Today I’ve been loving the way that the lack of any alternative is forcing people to try using our unified communications technology and them finding out that it really works and is dead easy. Things I love about unified communications: Got your number.