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Got the defense done a week and a half ago, and passed. Now I'm just implementing some corrections to the actual thesis before I can graduate. I've gotten some of the corrections back from my last committee member, and so far they're pretty minor. That said, I'm managing to get them all taken care of pretty quick and getting them implemented. ( Read more... )

Yet more spam regarding the thesis! (Since that's the only thing of consequence going on in my life at the moment ( Read more... )

The thesis has been sent in for my adviser to see for the first time. Here's hoping it goes well...


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You know something I find a little funny with C/C++? You take these classes on the language where they show you this nice, structured programming language that has classes and all kinds of nice little features, and it all follows a set paradigm ( Read more... )

I've made some awesome progress on my simulator for my thesis. I think I'm ready to move on to the hardware implementation (the hard part).

I put the simulator together using MASON, a platform which facilitates multi-robot simulator creation. I've included a few screenshots for you guys to see a bit of what I'm doing. The basic idea is I'm ( Read more... )

Back from the Networked Robotics workshop, and it was pretty good. (See here for more info: http://control.mines.edu/netrob09/) Got my paper presented, it'll be officially published soon, and I made some really good contacts for the job hunt. For any of you who weren't already ( Read more... )

Indeed it is. That is all.


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Well, I finished the independent study class, got an A (yes!) and now it's time to move on to the thesis. I've been doing some literature review stuff recently and getting into things, but now it's time to start work on the actual text of the paper. But we're going to do this right from day 1-- none of this juggling versions around between my ( Read more... )

Well, I just got word that the incredibly stressful paper I was working on at the end of last semester has been accepted! Which is good. I think. Except that now I have to keep doing some work on it and then PRESENT IT. Which means I, personally, will have to get up in front of a currently undefined number of people (who know the field and ( Read more... )