On My Desk at MIT (3)

-Books scattered and accumulated over the semester.

-Presentation boards

-Sketches/Drafts of Thesis

-5 Empty water bottles

-A sleeping bag below my desk

I am currently putting together a slide show presentation for my 2nd thesis review here at MIT. How do I begin to talk about semantic networks, knowledge databases, robotic articulating arms, and 3 traditional and non-traditional case studies of architecture into a cohesive platform? Each of what was mentioned stem and cross-over onto each other forming a system that bridges the gap between high level design knowledge and low level construction knowledge.

Last week, I was invited by a good prof. to share my thesis research in the form of a presentation to sponsor companies for the MIT Media Lab, including Samsung, IBM, Microsoft, Steelcase, and many others along with some press like Popular Mechanics.

It was a great way to share my thoughts and describe the thesis in a nutshell to a crowd who may be unfamiliar to architecture, software, software programming, and artificial intelligence techniques.

On a side note:

I use the word “desk at MIT” to refer to two primary locales: the desk at my dormitory OR the desk in my assigned office that I share with my Beirut buddies (Beirut buddies = MIT colleagues).

As of this moment, it is the desk at the war office.

Signing out,

Rachelle

In my dorm at M.I.T.

-scattered winter clothing

-duct tape

-compass, map, & whistle

-swiss army knife

I’m preparing for a day hike at Blue Hills tomorrow morning with fellow MIT Outing Club members. Once there, we’ll be undergoing basic skills and orienteering. This is a fairly smooth hike with about 600′+/- elevation gain, once atop we’ll be cooking spaghetti for lunch and head back by sun down – I’m quite fond of night hikes.

Aside from this, I’m still working on my  research…more to be said about that later. I have yet to build a project that utilizes my accelerometer chip (the very same chip inside the Nintendo Wii control, it measures rotation, tilt, and vibration) together with the microcontroller (a device that is programmable to interface with external sensors to do rather simple and sometimes complex tasks, like a line following robot for instance).

-RVill