I’m a bit fuzzy on the dates, but it was during a Summer School enrichment program, prior to high school, that I encountered the Internet. Before then, the closest thing to owning a computer was my Super Nintendo. I have memories of using Yahoo! to search for everything Final Fantasy, and used up all the … Continue reading
A friend downloads this game called Threes a couple weeks ago. It’s currently $2 on iPhone and Android. My friend called it the Tetris of our day, and, I have to admit, it is easy to understand, challenging, and fun. Before getting the chance to write about it, an interesting lineage of clones appeared. Cloned. The … Continue reading
After years of working on a PhD, I’ve realized that my real motivation to go into Computer Science was to understand myself. As a child, I always struggled to answer the question, “how are you?” There was no quick way to capture how I was. Things seemed more black and white for other people than … Continue reading
You’d think that getting a PhD means that you know what it means to get a PhD. A website came my way that gave a good general visualization of what it means to get a PhD. What is a PhD? PhD’s also mean different things depending on discipline. At the last lab meeting, we read … Continue reading
“At the age of 5, I had a crush on Super Mario…” My personal statement opens with where it all began, playing Mario Bros. New love came in the form of Final Fantasy, and I went through a period in primary school where given the opportunity, I based all creative projects on Final Fantasy 2. … Continue reading
Yesterday at 6:30 pm, I messaged my band, “I’m migrating our site from posterous to wordpress… b/c wordpress pwns.” As I was updating information on our latest gig, I had an eery feeling that something about how the Posterous site was running seemed off– mostly in the features and odd formatting. I took a couple hours yesterday … Continue reading
Unless you’ve taken an introduction to Artificial Intelligence course, you most likely don’t have a full understanding of what Artificial Intelligence actually is. Even our own expert understanding of Artificial Intelligence changes as new advancements occur. Although AI has been around since the 60’s, the study of AI in videogames 5 years ago, and perhaps … Continue reading
I tweeted once that I was doing my favorite thing. I work and have become friends with some of the most interesting people I’d ever met. People who dream big, who will go where they need to to find answers, who put in the hard work to make statements worth stating, and produce contributions of … Continue reading
My experience with Tron: Legacy last night has changed the way I see movies (and games) in the following ways (there’s just one small spoiler at the very end): I will never see the “snake game” the same way ever again. The Matrix seems a lot less impressive. What this tells me is that any … Continue reading
I wanted to write a little about my research. You can read a bit about it here. The diagram above is what the early system looked like. I’ve moved beyond that in a couple aspects, mostly because I’ve gone back to the drawing board a couple times. So, what am I trying to do? Well, … Continue reading
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