The primary assignment for EECS 594, Intro to Adaptive Systems, is to present a research proposal that uses adaptive systems to investigate an issue of interest in your field, and critique the proposals of the other students. Dr. Holland says, wisely, that this is good preparation for academia, where much time is spent in […]
Adaptive Systems Research Proposal
Knitta, Please!
Thanks to a loaned copy of CRAFT (oh, what a great new zine!) from my pal Vox, I was recently turned onto the double-take-inducing work of Knitta Please. It’s really something else; they have a photostream on Flickr of their guerilla knit cozies for public objects. I covet one of their Knitta T-shirts […]
Final Semester
It’s the last semester of my MSI degree, and my classes will be pretty good, on the balance.
First, of course, is my thesis. I had a bit of a breakthrough last week and I’m feeling really good about it. I’m ready to start moving into data collection and I could start writing any […]
Birthday in Vegas
My paper was accepted to the ASIS&T 2007 IA Summit! It’s the same paper that I wrote for SI 658, turned into a white paper for Enlighten, and also worked into two articles for Boxes & Arrows. For the purposes of the conference, I titled it, “Data Driven Design: Using Web Analytics to […]
Sweater Season
The long, dark, hibernation-inducing winter nights are more tolerable with a little knitting in the soothing glow of the television. I recently finished my long-awaited tweedy green wool socks:
On Christmas Eve, I started in on a sporty hoodie with a sweatshirt cut, made with precious soy silk (South West Trading Company’s Phoenix) in a […]