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Ozan Cakmakci

Graduate Student,
Optics for head-mounted displays, ODALAB

School of Optics/CREOL
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-2700
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In preperation..

At the moment, I am looking into an automatic way to manage links. Mythreads seems like an option,
I am yet to check it out though. Any suggestions are welcome. Here are some of the links:

Exhibition

New Exhibition!

My mother is having a new exhibition at Anadolu Ajansi. Here is the address:
Anadolu Ajansi Sanat Galerisi
G.M.K. Bulvari No:128/C Blok 06750, Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey.

My mother is a painter and she is having her 3rd exhibition.
Here is the invitation for "dreams and tales".
P.s.: "Kirmizi Baslikli Kiz" is "Little Red Riding Hood".

Pictures of my first wearable computer prototype

During the summer of 1999, I put together a wearable computer using standard
pc/104 boards to get familiar with the research issues in this field. If you
are interested in building one, search for "Lizzy", Thad Starner's publicly
shared prototype.

Useful toolboxes relating to machine learning:

Links for my electronics lab:

Bioengineering

Augmented Reality:

Optics and MEMS: Volumetric displays: Mechanism Design and Solid Modeling: Yemek tarifleri/malzemesi: Text data:

Computer Architecture:

Physical prototyping:

Neat Toys: Treasure Hunt: Linguistics related: Design Research Computer Games
  • Al Lowe's site
  • Alex's web site - he's a third year comp.sci. student at UJF. Laughology?? :)
  • An effort to find worlds funniest joke
  • International Journal of Humor Research Politics
  • Campaign against arms trade
  • American empire project
  • University of Maryland Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA)
  • Brookings Institution
  • United Nations
  • American Enterprise Institution
  • Overseas development institute
  • Rand corporation Lisp Linear Algebra: Computational Geometry Tcl/Tk Latex under windows Video format conversion/editing

    'Friendly' tutorials/intro papers/training:

    Computer Music/Perceptual organization of sound related:

    Computer Vision: Multimodal dialog Optometry
    • Contact Lens Practice : Hard and Flexible Lenses. R.B. Mandell.
    Magnetic Fluids: Positioning systems: Odor/Olfactory:
    • Odor Detection and Recognition with Support Vector Machines Distante, C. Ancona, N. Siciliano, P. MEETING ABSTRACTS- ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY -ALL DIVISIONS- , page(s): 1121
    • An Algorithmic Approach to Odor Communication and Reproduction, D. Harel. Weizmann institute tech report.
    Scripting Urban Planning
    • Lewis Mumford
    Office supplies Information visualization
      From Jock Mackinlay's talk
    • Catal hoyuk, Turkey, B.C. 6200, triangle for volcano
    • William Playfair: Father of Statistical Presentation, 1786 (pie charts, bar charts,etc.)
    • John Snow, Statistical Map analysis/visualization, 1855 London Cholera Epidemic. Plot cases of cholera, it clusters in a particular place.
    • Charles Minard: Napoleon's March Presentation, 1869 Lithograph.
    • Darrell Huff: How to Lie With Statistics. 1955.
    • Jacques Bertin: Semiology of Graphics. Encapsulates statistical presentation. Tabular view for viewing multivariant data. 1967. Early works of computer visualization.
    • John Tukey: Exploratory Data Analysis. 1977. Stem&Leaf plot.
    • NSF Panel on Graphics, Image Processing and Workstations. Scientific Visualization. In Proc. IEEE CG&A. Term "scientific visualization" came from this panel.
    • '86 Mackinlay finishes dissertation :-). Compositional Algebra. Primitives from jacques b. + compositions.
    • Card, Mackinlay, Shneiderman. "Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think" (as opposed to presentation).
    • George Furnass paper on Fisheye view.
    • Spotfire.
    HCI
    • ConcurTaskTree for task models (from Fabio Paterno).
    • Pangero. Goals + Focus. Participative systems.
    • 1984
    Ocean Communities Wafer manufacturers: Polymer electronics: Embedded: Bhagavat Gita Rock Climbing Analog design
    • Robert Pease, Electronic Design '96. Question: Is it possible to design an electric circuit composed only of resistors and capacitors that delivers a gain of greater than one? It turns out that it is possible. Philbrick 1956 circuit.
    Limits of Semiconductor devices:
    • Speed - carrier transport, dimensions
    • Power - thermal conductivity, bandgap, leakage currents, breakdown voltage
    • Efficiency - Carrier Transport (Mobility & saturation velocity)
    • Size - lithography, etching, epitaxy, implantation, diffusion (not used very much due to shrinking feature sizes)
    • Parasitics - device interactions, resistivity, capacitance
    Ubiquitous Computing: News (handle with care!)

    Africa

    Americas

    Asia-Pacific

    Europe

    Middle East

    Interesting conferences:

    Interesting labs/companies/organizations/events:

    Aerial imagery: Digital still cameras with SDKs/APIs

    As of this writing, there are two APIs under Linux called gphoto and jphoto that provide control of some cameras. If you want to take pictures by sending commands over USB from a computer, most the cameras supported by ghoto are either discontinued (Kodak, agfa,etc.) or low-res (640x480). Kodak DC-4800 is supported under Jphoto for taking pictures. Aside from these APIs, Canon and Nikon has proprietry SDKs. Canon SDK only supports Windows and Nikon seems to support both MacOS and Windows.

    Genetic Programming

    Florida Links: Local (Brussels) Links:

    Local (French) Links:

    German Links:

    Helping poor elementary schools of the rural villages in Turkey/Turkish links:

    Sources of Interesting Music/Films: