24th May 2007
/status
It’s been almost 2 months since my last post, so I thought I’d make a status update on what I’ve been up to.
I finished my 4th year of my program, with one more to go. Next year I’m going to get to take some awesome courses, included another Advanced Artificial Intelligence course and more importantly, my final project / research project. I’m still not sure what I’m going to do for that. Being partial to Mac OS X, I’d like to do something that I could write a nice Cocoa interface for. I’m kind interested in doing something with OCR (Wouldn’t it be great to break all those stupid captcha image fields?), AI, Neural Nets, or HCI (Mmm, pie menus). If you have suggestions please let me know.
This summer is shaping up to be pretty awesome. Although my Google Summer of Code application to write unit tests for Adium was accepted, I had to turn it down as I was offered an internship with Apple. As honoured as I would be to get a chance to work with the Adium team, the opportunity to work at “the mothership” is one of that no CS student can turn down. It is certainly a huge opportunity for me, and I hope to do my best to impress, learn and produce at Apple. That being said, I’m taking off for Cupertino, CA, on Sunday. I’m very excited to meet all the other interns and start work.
Further, I’ve also been lucky enough to receive a WWDC Scholarship. I don’t know how much of the conference I’ll be able to attend while working, but I’ll certainly be around. It sounds like a couple members of the Adium team are going to be there, so if a meet-up happens, you can count on me to get some photos. 
That’s all for now, more updates to follow.
It’s been almost 2 months since my last post, so I thought I’d make a status update on what I’ve been up to.
I finished my 4th year of my program, with one more to go. Next year I’m going to get to take some awesome courses, included another Advanced Artificial Intelligence course and more importantly, my final project / research project. I’m still not sure what I’m going to do for that. Being partial to Mac OS X, I’d like to do something that I could write a nice Cocoa interface for. I’m kind interested in doing something with OCR (Wouldn’t it be great to break all those stupid captcha image fields?), AI, Neural Nets, or HCI (Mmm, pie menus). If you have suggestions please let me know.
This summer is shaping up to be pretty awesome. Although my Google Summer of Code application to write unit tests for Adium was accepted, I had to turn it down as I was offered an internship with Apple. As honoured as I would be to get a chance to work with the Adium team, the opportunity to work at “the mothership” is one of that no CS student can turn down. It is certainly a huge opportunity for me, and I hope to do my best to impress, learn and produce at Apple. That being said, I’m taking off for Cupertino, CA, on Sunday. I’m very excited to meet all the other interns and start work.
Further, I’ve also been lucky enough to receive a WWDC Scholarship. I don’t know how much of the conference I’ll be able to attend while working, but I’ll certainly be around. It sounds like a couple members of the Adium team are going to be there, so if a meet-up happens, you can count on me to get some photos.
That’s all for now, more updates to follow.
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