Sorry again for the low frequency of posts these last few weeks - revision, revision… I H A T E R E V I S I O N. Got the message?! To be honest during these periods of *intensive* work there isn’t usually a lot to talk about but sufficed to say I’ve dragged something out of myself today! Yesterday saw the conclusion of my major project (worth 1/3 of this years marks) with a live demonstration - this seemed to go quite well and luckily the examiner didn’t ask any horrible questions contrary to what I had been expecting. Whilst some of it has been quite interesting it’s good to put a lid on it finally 
So here’s what the Software Engineering component of my course looks like on Q-cards:
(Fascinating huh?!)
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Google’s Singularity machine - are Google building ‘AI that transcends humanity’? Perhaps.
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Time Traveler Convention - Nice idea which unfortunately didn’t work. Dr. Who fans may be disappointed!
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Edsinger Domo - Be warned the robots are on the rise (again)! Not quite at Schwarzenegger terminator level yet.
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Culture Jamming - Some guy walks into famous museums and puts his own work up. Old news but still cool!
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An amazing project is going on at the ESA (European Space Agency) to create the most detailed surface map of the world every created, with a resolution three times sharper than any created before. Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument will be used to capture the images which are estimated to take up to 20 terabytes of disk space! “The completed GLOBCOVER map will have numerous uses, including plotting worldwide land use trends, studying natural and managed ecosystems and modeling climate change extent and impacts“. When you look at these images the world looks a whole lot smaller. It is expected to take two years to complete.
Any ‘Ghost in the Shell‘ fans out there will be familiar with the concept of “thermoptic camouflage” where you trick the eye into thinking an object is invisible by projecting an image of what’s behind it onto its masked surface. Now some crazy Japanese scientists have taken another step forward in turning science-fiction into science-fact with their proof-of-concept demonstrations of just that! Whilst it’s still heavily in development the videos on the site show that it’s definitely progressing. It’s kind of scary when reality actually starts to mirror fiction but it’s a fitting testiment to Masamune Shirows futuristic vision (if a somewhat nightmarish one!).
R.E. My last post - Election night was boring and predictable as expected. British politics is dead in terms of true democracy, it needs a serious shot of life injected back into it.
“What’s with the fish? I hear you shout! Think about 1999. Cool
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So it’s election night here in the UK - whist’s the outcome is pretty much certain there have been unexpected upsets before so you never quite know what will happen in the next few hours. I went to vote at about 1pm and was a bit surprised to find the poling station unexpectedly quite considering it was lunchtime and you might have imagined that people would have come to vote on the lunch break but who knows…!
I have to give a presentation for my Project Management course today. I did it on the topic of “Conflict Management” - it went OK I think, I didn’t much enjoy doing it but it seemed fairly well received!
Talk about dumbing down - a classic case of “re-branding” has taken place with the ‘University of Durham’ metamorphosing into ‘Durham University - confused? So you should be! The rather absurd reasoning behind it is modernisation or perhaps more of an Americanisation? To be honest the new logo looks far less professional than the old one but that’s progress for you!
A few links worth a click:
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