Hello, so this is the answer to the questionnaire provided in Sketch Recognition class to inaugurate this blog:
As for the picture you can look at my general profile, my email is pacovides at gmail dot com. for the rest I can tell you that this is my first year in the Master, that I am taking this class because I see great potential in this relatively new field of computer science and I have always been interested in AI in general, and the sketch recognition is very related, since it can be based upon AI methods and algorithms. About what I have to give to the class, besides my CS major I also have a major in Electronics Engineering which I think can contribute to some topics in the class, I also come from a Country in South America in a class where there is no big representation of this part of the world, so I can give another point of view. And mostly I come with a lot of disposition towards learning and working in group.
How do I see myself 10 years from now? 10 years is far away, I can barely plan what I will be doing tomorrow! but if I had to guess, I hope that 10 years from now I would be settling down somewhere in the world after a lot of travel, in a somehow stable job, starting a family. Yet I hope, by then my hunger for knowledge has not disappeared yet so I can keep learning from every day that goes by. The next advance in computer science is probably going to be related with the way final users interact with the machines, today mobile devices such as PDAs or mobile phones provide more and more processing power, and hardware capabilities such as new sensors and actuators. The way users interact with these machines is still in a very early stage of its potential. Integration is also playing an important role, such that one can access the same service from many different places or hardware clients in many different ways. My favorite course as an undergraduate was artificial intelligence, and my favorite movie The Matrix(the first one, not the triology). Besides the awesome effects and the action this movie along with others alike like The Thirteenth Floor thinks out of the box about what life can be and what is our role while living it. If I will travel back in time I would meet myself, not because I am an egomaniac, but it would just be an interesting paradox to play with.
An interesting fact about myself is that I am always open to questions and new friends, although my primary objective is this master, I am also here to learn from different cultures and meet new people. I love to travel and I have been in many places looking to expand my vision of life. So if you haven't met anyone from Colombia yet mail me and we can chat over a coffee or something, that is of course, after doing the sketch recognition homework.
