Alex, Mike and I were featured on the front page of the Daily Barometer today for the Google Pizza Ambassador program and the Linux Users Group. Go Beavs! Update: Photos here and here.
Author Archives: Brandon Philips
Open Source and Defense
12/30/2005 – 11:13 am
Recently I recieved an email from Jay Lyman of NewsForge.net who wanted my input on an article he is working on:
I heard you talk a little about your work developing software at NASA when I got a tour of the OSU Open Source Lab earlier this year. As I recall, you mentioned that some of [...]
Mission Success
8/31/2005 – 3:51 pm
I’m Back
Although serious injuries almost resulted from the obvious ending to this situation it was alot of fun at the time.
NASA
The last 5 weeks at NASA were fantastic; everyone came together and finished not only their team projects but also the group project.
In those last weeks I finished up the hand tracking software although I [...]
!DEAD
7/3/2005 – 12:45 pm
The rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated. I have been too busy doing things to have time to write about them. So what have I been up to?
Human Robotics Interfaces
My robotics internship team has been assigned the task by Anthrotronix to create a platform for testing new robotic input devices. To [...]
Kernel and Mozilla Builds
5/5/2005 – 11:08 pm
In the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to watch releases of both Mozilla (1.0.3) and the Linux Kernel (2.6.11.8 aka Woozy Beaver). These are two of the largest open source projects in existence today and watching the release, build, bug tracking, and communication systems used by these projects was an eye [...]
SpreadButter!
5/3/2005 – 11:12 pm
A few days ago Beth Gordon suggested the idea of SpreadButter.com as a spoof on the great community developing over at SpreadFirefox. I just couldn’t stop laughing after she suggested the idea, so I did the only logical thing; I registered the domain and installed CivicSpace.
Already some of my friends have written some pretty [...]
OpenCV
5/3/2005 – 11:02 pm
Recently I have started playing with a computer vision library. But it is one of those pieces of software that just moves sooo slow because the developers are hard to get ahold of.
In particular I have a terribly trivial patch that makes the library compile under Linux 2.6 and no one has even commented [...]
Maintain Talk at Panug
5/3/2005 – 10:25 pm
At InnoTech I met Ed Sawicki of the Portland Area Network Users Group. Ed is working on a new book about DNS outside of the world of BIND and was very interested in Maintain since it uses Tinydns as a backend. In any case he convinced me to give a presentation.
On [...]
The Perfect Summer Internship
4/16/2005 – 12:35 am
What is the recipe to my ideal summer internship?
1x Robotics
1x Image and Voice Processing/Recognition
1x Embedded Linux
1x Internet Technologies
Now of course it should be in a really neat location. I have always wanted to live on the east coast and visit the MIT AI lab and the NASA centers; so lets put it in Maryland. [...]
