So apparently there’s a new way to connect to CDF via NX server. Kudos to the CDF admin team for laying out some super-easy steps to set up the connection (the setup was surprisingly pain-free on Vista). I got everything up and running in a few seconds. The connection itself starts off a bit slow, [...]
Someone suggested that we do a “photo tour” of Bahen during the last DCS Ambassadors meeting (this was for the highschool visitation training) , and it got me thinking of an old demo by Microsoft. They were showcasing a tool called Photosynth, which would stitch together images of a particular location to generate a pseudo-3D [...]
Phew, I sure had to sit through a lot of training sessions/workshops today. Well, I only had two but that’s two more than none… The first one was the continuation of previous DCS Ambassadors training session for doing high school visits and presentations. Our homework from the previous session was to prepare a short, 5-minute [...]
“Why Computer Science? and specifically, why UofT?” That was the thousand-pound gorilla in BA 4290 as a handful of DCS Ambassadors met together for the first of two training sessions. As DCS Ambassadors, we have the option of representing UofT on high school visits to promote our computer science program. So in order to help [...]
A few weeks ago I attended the Department of Computer Science Alumni-Student Mentorship program reception. The program is designed to pair up grad/undergrad students with UofT CompSci alum who are currently working in the IT industry. It was a good chance to meet other students, meet some profs, and of course, meet the alum! This [...]