Trailer photo from Google JUMP. The big things from Google I/O I think are Brillo, JUMP, Project Soli and Jacquard. Android M App privilege control: something that iOS has 2~4 years ago… Chrome enhancement: tabs & autopassword, something that iOS has 2~4 years ago… Send to app: something that iOS has 2~4 years ago… Android Pay: something that iOS…
[Summary] Display of Surfaces from Volume Data
Display of Surfaces from Volume Data is written by Marc Levoy and is cited by over 3,000 times. The full version of this paper can be retrieved here. Abstract The application of volume rendering techniques to the display of surfaces from sampled scalar functions of three spatial dimensions is explored. Fitting of geometric primitives to the…
[Summary] Low Discrepancy Samplings of High Dimensional Geometric Spaces with Applications
Prof. Chandrajit Bajaj from University of Texas at Austin gave a talk at 1pm on May 29, 2015 on Low Discrepancy Samplings of High Dimensional Geometric Spaces with Applications. This talk is hosted by Prof. David Mount, who I took his CMSC 754 Computation Geometry class. Misc: In 1984, Prof. Mount visited Cornell, Prof. Bajaj took Prof. Mount to…
Photo Summary of the 32nd HCIL Symposium
HCIL‘s 32nd Annual Symposium took place on Thursday, May 28th, 2015. It highlighted the cutting-edge research being conducted in the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. Schedule Plenary Talks Welcome/Introduction Mona Leigh Guha The New ABCs of Research Ben Shneiderman Social Fabrics: Designing Wearable E-Textiles for Interaction, Introspection, and Inquiry Jon E. Froehlich Understanding…
2015 UMIACS Featured Talk: 3D Urban Sensing and Visualization
This is the best talk I have attended in this semester! See the amazing publications for details: http://www.cs.sdu.edu.cn/~baoquan/publications.html Abstract 3D modeling of urban environments starts to play an increasingly important role in the emerging technologies from self-driving car to augmented reality. Beyond helping a human or a vehicle navigate, 3D urban models provide a base…
14 Tips for Internships
How to take advantage of internships?
Internship is of great significance to CS students. Here are 13 tips for internships inspired by Lilian from UW as well as Sidhant Gupta. Summarized by Ruofei Du. Make sure you clean up your desk and work space before you leave for your internship! Internship is not just a 9 to 5 work-on-your-own-thing job. Use internship as…
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