Browsing category: 'Computer Science'

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Distributed Screen Saver Project

 
A couple of days ago while trying to stay awake while my simulations ran for hours, I came across this website: Electric Sheep. It seems like a really cool idea. It is a "distributed screensaver" that makes use of genetic algorithms to progress and...
Computer Science, A Science? Still debated…

Computer Science, A Science? Still debated…

 
As an update to my previous post on this subject "Computer Science, A Science?" more debate has taken place on the CompSci.ca forums and blog as a result of a blog post by Tony entitled "The most important programming language". Many good points...
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COCOA 2008 Paper

 
Just a small update, my first conference paper "Algorithms and Implementation for Interconnection Graph Problem" by Hongbing Fan, Christian Hundt, Yu-Liang Wu and myself, will be presented at COCOA 2008 in St. John's Newfoundland on Friday, August...
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Ubiquitous Computing vs Virtual Reality

 
Early this week, during a lecture at Guelph by Dr. Denko, I was introduced to the idea of ubiquitous computing. The idea was coined in the 1980's by Mark Weiser at the Xerox Parc Lab. An extremely simplified definition of ubiquitous computing on...
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Ten Practical Applications of Wireless Networks

 
Wireless Networks have become very popular in recent years and research in the area is very active. It is one of my main research interests while studying for my M.Sc. in Applied Computing at the University of Guelph so I thought I would write a bit...