here are some highlights of the past few weeks:

• got a part time job and am currently working at iqresearch.

• turned down research position to create er “smart rooms” that use computer vision, voice recognition, rfid tags, and sensor networks to decide where a particular patient should be sent. i turned it down for a lot of reasons, but mainly because it sounded kind of hokey. who would trust a room with currently unreliable technology to send them to their possible doom? you might as well listen to the scientologists and surround yourself with bananas to get better.

• worked on a cognitive radio project with some team members, lavesh and naveen. here are their pictures:

naveen is on the left, lavesh is on the right. they were very confused as to why i was taking their picture. that’s also my dr. pepper on the table.

for those who are interested, cognitive radios deal with the problem of traffic on the radio spectrum. using software, radios will be able to dynamically adjust their frequencies to not interfere with other rf devices.

• and here are some more pictures that i found on my phone, which i can now send text messages with (yes!).

2007 summer barbeque. the food was excellent.

2007 birthday meal prepared by amber and kara to prove their sweetness.