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Image Processing as Sets of Transformations

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 8:21 PM by RickM
In the image processing world, like most computational problems, we often think our work is composed of only two basic ideas: representation and transformation. Of course, one may have many layers of both representations of transformations and transformations Read More...
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How will you parallelize your existing codebase? Try R.A.S.P.

Posted Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:23 PM by RickM
There has been much talk of how we will be writing all of our new code with parallelization in mind.  However, what of our existing code?  It’s unlikely that everyone will just suddenly dump decades of existing code and write everything from Read More...
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Avoiding the Dangers of Ambiguously Defined Data-Types

Posted Friday, October 03, 2008 11:10 AM by RickM
When you are handed a string, integer, or any value type, can you know what it really represents? Can you define the range of appropriate behaviors for that data? Can you tell if it's formatted correctly? The problem is, in all of these cases, you can't. Read More...
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IPCV 08' Part 2 - Novel Approaches

Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:15 PM by RickM
I've managed to rig up Steve's cell to my laptop and I once again have Internet Access. From the time of my last post, most of the talks have been about applications of machine learning. This usually involves a neural network, PCA (Principle Component Read More...
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IPCV 08' - Day One Through One Point Five Rundown

Posted Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 PM by RickM
As you might have seen in Steve's Blog , we ended up getting stranded in Milwaukee overnight and missed most of the keynotes. We did manage to catch the last one which was on a company called Element CXI's very interesting reconfigurable hardware model. Read More...
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Comments About Flat Files

Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 11:38 AM by RickM
Comments About Flat Files My last blog post got a lot of reddit attention this weekend. I want to thank all of the posters with constructive comments. Open discussion like this is what makes the Internet great. I would also like to take a moment to discuss Read More...
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Why Are Our Programs Still Represented by Flat Files?

Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 3:45 PM by RickM
It's time to leave the secondary, external structure of our programs behind. If you can treat the reflected code from a programming language like an abstract data structure, why can’t you just keep the source itself in a similarly abstracted data structure? Read More...
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Top 5 Features Your Cellphone Should Already Have

Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:33 PM by RickM
Why is innovation dead in the cell phone industry? This is a list of five innovations I would like to see cell phone manufacturers and service providers bring to market. 1) Timed Silent Mode How many times has this happened to you: You go into a movie Read More...
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