This dispatch innaugurates an occasional series of cross-sections through contemporary photography, which is far too broad to tackle as a whole — though I tried a couple years ago for a presentation. Because I’m lazy busy and inherently unfocused, I’m going to let other people do the work of slicing through the contemporary art photography […]

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If you want to change careers or know someone who’s looking for a job, consider working for The MathWorks. We’ve grown almost continually over the ten years that I’ve been working there, and it looks like this trend continues.
Wednesday, our HR people were handing out pink sheets — ironic? — containing a list of […]

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There’s a whole lot of good stuff out there on the Internet. Here’s just a bit that I discovered recently:

The Nerd Handbook — “A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.”
Out Loud […]

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I’ve been telling everybody about this particular paper presentation at Electronic Imaging, because I think the implications are pretty cool. It’s yet another presentation where electrical engineers and image processing folks are treating machine vision more like human vision than they have tended to do in the past. This phenomena isn’t exactly new — for […]

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Note: Here’s another dispatches about what happened at the Electronic Imaging symposium even though I’m back from San Jose. They will continue until I run out of useful things to write or something more interesting happens in my life.
Yasuyo Ichihara of Kogakuin University presented some research that she and her colleagues performed on what many […]

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