Sometimes I like to look back at some of the strange things I was able to see while living in Japan. This is one type of thing that typifies that experience.

Yesterday we had about 9″ of snow fall resulting in Schenectady issuing a snow emergency. It was my first and probably not my last!

The REU program was my first experience doing research and it defiantly caught my interest. The research I did on identifying people through body measurements even got published, which I was excited about since I was only an undergraduate. It also lead to my first plane flight and the first time I really went out [...]

Lately, I have been using the Mac Mini that I bought a couple years ago. After I first bought it, I did a little with it and disregarded it mostly due to not having the time to figure out the differences between OS X and Windows or Linux. However, as I return home later this [...]

I finished community college with 124 credits taken and a GPA of 3.824. I had a chance to be taken around to some of the different 4 year universities in the state as part of the honors program, but the only one in which we really got to me face to face with anyone was [...]

Soon, my graduation will be done and I can officially make my family call me Dr. Brian (Brian is my middle name and my family uses that, because of the large number of Davids in our family). I am typically not one to pat myself on the back, in fact, I typically have a [...]

In America, Computer Science researchers very rarely submit to journals, because in our field conferences are thought to be more important. The reason being that 1) conferences offer more up-to-date information, 2) conferences allow a wider auidence to see your research and 3) the top 2 or 3 tiers of conferences have a lower acceptance [...]

Today I received my results from IP&M. For some strange reason, my paper only had 1 reviewer! How that can happen in an international journal is beyond me. Here is the result of the one review….
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Reviewer #1: Overall, it is hard to read a little. The authors should polish the wording and representation.Representation of citations [...]