Mike Mertsock

The nerdcore artist MC Plus+ released his second album, Chip Hop. Its fresh beats, MC Max Flow, and PhD lyrics exceed all my expectations.

The proposal has basically been ready for a few weeks, but it has been waiting for some final decisions.

Final progress report before I begin the proposal process for the M.S. thesis at RIT.

Progress report presented this week for M.S. thesis seminar.

Constellation of parts is a compact and expressive means of modeling classes of objects. I will implement a constellation of parts algorithm to recognise objects in video.

I have begun an independent study in computer vision at RIT.

Using Steven Erat’s fine walkthrough as a guide, CFMX 7 is running with minimal pain on my PowerBook.

Now that the first quarter of grad school at RIT is complete, I have some time (a full week of vacation) to update this site.

Tall human pyramids, such as those on a recent Simpsons episode, require some very strong people at the bottom. This bit of very, um, serious research determines exactly how strong, almost.

The lambda calculus is really fun, and an interesting abstract model for real programming languages.