yebb - Slashdot User

Comment Software developer - Corporate type - Academic (Score 1) 481

by yebb on Thursday October 26, 2017 @09:02AM (#55435987) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go?

I enjoyed software development and did so full time for six years coming out of my comp. sci. degree, but then tried a couple of web businesses and a consulting gig, all of which didn't pay the bills. Then I got a MBA and did corporate partnerships in the high tech sector for a little while; working with lawyers all day sucked my soul, so I did a PhD. Did a lot of teaching in business schools during my PhD, but I always came back to integrating software development into my teaching and research. Now I'm a tenure track professor in a business and technology management undergraduate program, teaching software development and database management (and other classes) to business/technology students. My research integrates computer vision (OpenCV) and artificial neural networks (Keras) in Python, looking at crowdfunding platform and campaigns. It would be hard to do what I do without my programming background.

Comment Actually, it's not that north.. (Score 2, Informative) 188

by yebb on Monday March 03, 2008 @10:42AM (#22623164) Attached to: Canadian University Puts Tech Whiz Kids in 'Dormcubator'

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - 43 28'
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - 42 36'

Most people forget that southern Ontario dips well south into the great-lakes basin.

Misc Slashdot Anniversary: Waterloo, ON, CA 4

Submitted by yebb on Friday October 05, 2007 @12:23PM

Get more information about the Slashdot Anniversary Party at Ethel's Lounge.

MIT Finds Cure For Fear 523

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 16, 2007 @12:43PM from the fear-itself dept.

Doom con runs away writes "MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience. They did this by inhibiting a kinase, an enzyme that change proteins, called Cdk5, which facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context."

Robots Test "Embodied Intelligence" 57

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 30, 2006 @05:05PM from the quagmire-needs-to-respond-oh-right dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's an interesting article about a robotics experiments designed to test the benefits of coupling visual information to physical movement. This approach, known as embodied cognition, supposes that biological intelligence emerges through interactions between organisms and their environment. Olaf Sporns from Indiana University and Max Lungarella from Tokyo University believe strengthening this connection in robots could make them smarter and more intuitive."

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