Reflections by Susie Wee

The impact of Google’s bold move

susiewee — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:17:58 +0000

Today many people in China are sad. Who’s sad? The people in China who most strongly support Google. These people were excited about Google’s services- search, docs, wave, android, chrome, and all the other services that were yet to come. Google could do no wrong in their eyes, and they were ready to be the [...]

Qualcomm CES keynote: All consumer devices are going to be cell phones themselves.

susiewee — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:52:20 +0000

Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs gave a keyntoe at CES. This was perhaps the best CES keynote I attended, since Jacobs went through a lot of information at a quick pace and he brought forward many interesting partners. Jacobs said one line that sums up Qualcomm’s vision and strategy "We believe all consumer devices are going to [...]

Nokia CES Keynote: Focus on people. Empower people to take care of themselves. Focus on doing good business and doing good.

susiewee — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:08:02 +0000

Nokia’s CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo gave a keynote and CES. I attended the second half and I included my live tweets below. Overall, I was very impressed with the keynote. It really differed from the other keynotes I saw which focused on products. Nokia really focused on people, their needs, and Nokia’s solutions to those needs. [...]

Intel CES Keynote: Computing power is more important than ever. 3D, mobile, netbook app store

susiewee — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:16:07 +0000

Intel CEO Paul Otellini gave a keynote speech at CES 2010. I live-tweeted the session and my raw tweets are below. In addition, here are some of the themes and highlights that I heard. The world is moving in directions that need a lot more compute/processing power. Computing and processor technology has rapidly advanced in compute power [...]

Microsoft CES Keynote: Slate PCs, Something for everyone, and Xbox Natural User Interfaces

susiewee — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:00:29 +0000

Steve Ballmer (CEO) and Robbie Bach (President of the Devices & Entertainment division) shared the keynote and CES. They talked about what Microsoft did in 2009 and what Microsoft will do in 2010. I live-tweeted the session and my raw tweets are included below. In addition, I’m including some of the big messages I heard [...]

Ten tech thoughts for the 2010’s

susiewee — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:52:59 +0000

New Year’s Day is always a time for reflection, especially when the new year ends in a 0. This morning I tweeted some tech thoughts I have on the 2010’s. I’ll follow up with blog posts dedicated to some of these topics. In the mean time, here are some of my first tweets for the [...]

In Remembrance of Professor William F. Schreiber

susiewee — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:40:56 +0000

Professor William F. Schreiber was my Ph.D. thesis advisor. He passed away in October 2009 at the age of 84. This article in the Boston Globe describes a bit about his life. His remembrance ceremony was held at the MIT Faculty Club on November 21, 2009. The room was packed with people who came to celebrate his life. [...]

From cameraman to camerawoman in NIR imaging research

susiewee — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:59:40 +0000

In the world of image processing research, it is important to have standard test images so people can compare their results. The cameraman image is a test image that has been used for decades. It can be found in many image processing textbooks and homework problems. Imaging and photography has come quite a long ways since [...]

Pyramids and the Sphynx: People pictures

susiewee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:58:53 +0000

Here are some people pictures we took by the Pyramids and the Sphynx during my trip to Egypt in Nov 2009. The first picture is the Step Pyramid in a town called Sakkara which has 16 pyramids. It turns out that there are many different types of pyramids, and it took some experimentation to find [...]

Riding smiling camels at night

susiewee — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:25:29 +0000

I spent some time with the camels in the Egyptian desert at night, with the beautifully lit Pyramids of Giza in the distance. I’m sharing a few pictures that we took. I don’t know much about camels, but this seemed like a particularly happy crew. The first picture has our calm, cool, and collected [...]