The lovely Janelle has been visiting, so I’ve been neglecting the ol’ blog in favour of spending my free time doing things with her, like eating calf brains at Boneta (verdict: delicious) and watching Project Runway (verdict: hell of a lot better than I expected). But she’s in the spare room sewing and listening to…
academia
I’ve been plaqued!
So I just found out that not only was our poster a finalist at the SIGGRAPH Student Research Competition, but we actually won FIRST PLACE! Which comes with a plaque and some cash! See what happens when you go to the awards ceremony at the wrong time and then get annoyed and leave because you…
SIGGRAPH’d
SIGGRAPH, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Well, I’m back from SIGGRAPH, probably the coolest Computer Science conference around. And also, I’m tired. While Graphics tends to catch a lot of flack (not least from its practitioners) for being somewhat hacky, I did find people were generally more open to ideas and less ivory-towery than…
headed to SIGGRAPH
As previously promised, I am headed to SIGGRAPH! I will be presenting a poster of my research with Abhi and Nando on Monday and Wednesday (booth I03): Preference Galleries for Material Design. This is the first time I’ve publicly presented this particular research, so it will be interesting to hear what people think of it….
behold: Candidate Brochu
It took me two years to find an area of research, two months to turn it into a research topic, two weeks to write a proposal, two days to write a proposal talk, two hours to defend it, and two minutes to pass it. But now, I’m a PhD student no more: I’m officially a…