Saturday 31 March 2007

Wine in Laptop

Wine in laptop!! What a terrible thing it is. But in case someday this could happen to me, i need to prepare for it. Below is a link that teaches us how to deal with such condition. Keep it in mind, it makes things better.

1. You need to disconnect all power sources to not make things worse
2. Time is not your friend.

http://www.grynx.com/projects/wine-in-laptop/

Saturday 17 March 2007

Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research

This article was written by H.T. Kung.(Prepared for "What is Research" Immigration Course, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 14 October 1987)

link:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/thesis.htm

There are several interesting topic in this article. In the subject 4 he presented 4 stages for a Ph.D student. And these stages are most important processes for student.
  • Knowing everything stage
    • Student: "I have designed a supercomputer even before graduate school."
    • Faculty: speechless
  • Totally beaten up stage
    • Student: speechless
    • Faculty: smiling at the student's progress so communication is possible now.
  • Confidence buildup stage
    • Student: "I am not stupid after all." (student thinks)
    • Faculty: "Uh oh, she is ready to argue." (faculty think)
  • Calling the shot stage
    • Faculty: "I am going to design an n-processor supercomputer."
    • Student: "You are crazy, because ..."
Maybe it is a good idea to translate it into Chinese some other day.

Saturday 10 March 2007

New Topic for WII

"An approach to improve the performance of WIImote via experimenting with WII sport under wireless sensor network."

Abstract

Recently my lab plan to buy a new equipment for some special purposes. The equipment is a video game console which is called WII made by Nintendo. For its new input device WIImote which contains several acceleration sensors and infrared detection, we design to purchase one. The WIImote is a new application of hybrid combination of acceleration sensors and infrared sensors, and it is also a kind of position system, since this concept is presented for a long time. But it is the first time we can see this kind of equipment in everyone`s home. Moreover, the WIImote connects to the console using Bluetooth under the wireless environment.So we bring up several new topic issues for WIImote in this project.

In order to deal with these issues, we devise several experimentations to improve the performance of WIImote. The experiment shows how we solve the problem we met during the training of WIImote. Furthermore, during the process of the experiment a new kind of algorithm was presented to point out the main problem we face. This is a new interesting topic, and we will keep on tracing it.



For more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii

Edit your mii
http://www.miieditor.com/