Archive for November, 2010

Presentations: Madison’s High Tech Happy Hour and the Sony Technical Symposium

Late Wednesday afternoon my coworker Markus asked me to give a presentation for him about Sony on Thursday at a Pecha Kucha event in Madison.  It’s held as part of  High Tech Happy Hour – a fantastic networking / free drinking opportunity that’s definitely going on my schedule for next month.

Pecha Kucha is a pretty cool concept – you get 20 slides that auto advance every 20 seconds.  Markus had already submitted a deck for me, which meant that I needed to take his script and make it work for me at that pace.  Given that I only had a few hours to do that, I’d say it went pretty well.

About a month ago I submitted a paper to Sony Electronics’ annual Technical Symposium. Out of the 50 or so papers that were submitted mine was chosen as one of 5 finalists, so I got to go to San Diego to present it in front of about 250 engineers and managers. I did such a good job of presenting that the audience chose mine as the best paper!

Given that I did so well at the presentation, I really want to try Pecha Kucha or Ignite again sometime!

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Useful tool of the day

If you’re going to do any coding using OpenCV, you’ll want to bookmark this cheat sheet of common OpenCV functions, operators, etc. It’ll save you lots of time.

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