Kuan-ming's research homepage: notes

My notes

Research statement for Fall 2004
Research statement for Spring 2005
Research statement for Spring 2006
Research statement for Spring 2007
CPS 230 (Algorithms) course notes
CPS 220 (Architecture) course notes
Need know more about computer visions: Flat TVs and screens are terrible. Why do most cameras and video capturers have only a single eye? If we want to approach the 3-D feeling of humans, we should concentrate on how to emulate humans' both-eye vision.
I have constantly thought about the 3-D glasses. It seems the only reasonable solution to simulate human 3-D sense, by generating 2 slightly different images simultaneously. It is the only convenient design which is independent of the human head position.
The i18n criteria for operating systems: It happens a lot that OS supports Chinese characters , but not all built-in software in this OS supports i18n. While i18n is currently examined on application software basis, I think it is more essential to examine the i18n integrity of the OS, especially when we have more and more software bundling to the OS, such as MSN/IE to M$, and X system to *NIX...
An introductory paragraph about the newsgroups: I still read some newsgroups forums, do you?
A 99% rule of thumb: When a United State citizen says "All office workers used Microsoft Office before," what does s/he mean? According to my (3-month) experience, s/he says it as long as over 80% of the office workers used MS Office before. In contrast, I will consider the argument false because I implicitly apply a "99% rule of thumb;" therefore, I can not agree with any statement starting with "All," "Every," or "Workers in the United States" if it is true for less than 99% of the subject.
A similar issue on language use is "most." Currently I have no idea whether 51%, 2/3, or 80% (from the 80-20 rule) coverage should be applied to the subject of the sentence "Most office workers used Microsoft Office before."
An introductory paragraph about data compression: It's only my draft, but do you believe that the comment of my teacher was,"This is perfect English -- is it all your original language?" Anyways, I think it still can be improved...
Informal comments on the SMD paper
"You still have a choice!" [=Never give up (Chinese)]: from Minority Report.
Kernel-method-based Blind (or Independent) Source Separation (paper) (code): Something I surveyed with cj in Winter 2001 and now (Spring 2005) arouses Jun's interest...

Interesting References

(Here is a translator between English and Chinese)

AKS resources

The source was unreachable from the United States. Blame it on the war.

Integer sequences

Combinatorial programming (in Chinese)

Java syntax sugar (in Chinese)

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics

An on-line book written by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom with Meinhard E. Mayer.

OOP Software Engineering (in Chinese)

Fact Guru

Anime International (in Chinese)

How to make animations

Arithmetic coding sources

Rafan's R notes (in Chinese)

The Code Book

A best-seller cryptanalytic book by Simon Singh

The Phrack on-line magazine

"...a Hacker magazine by the community, for the community...."

Vast oceans of thought

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Mysterious sea (won me a book "The Art of Deception")

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Some Perl tutorials

perl predef var

perl-man

(Web) document pattern analysis

Graph Visualization Tool

The Chinese Language website

Exeter University Beginners' German

"Origin" of laptop (Tablet PC!?)

Online Unbounded Integration

2004 ACM PhD Thesis Award: Boaz Borak's cryptography thesis

...and here is a short introduction

Networking on the Network

About why we international students should not be shy... "A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students" by Phil Agre at UCLA.

North Korea Music/Video

stunned by its extremely comformity...

Cong to Jun(2) and Kamesh(1)

They're all going to The 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2005), during April 5-8, 2005, at National Center of Sciences, Tokyo, Japan

European Institute of Computer Anti-Virus Research (EICAR)

Try typing the following passage and saving as "eicar.com" in M$ Windows system:

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Online Multimedia: pay or free service? (in Chinese)

Source Control HOWTO

a blog of Eric Sink at SourceGear, IL

A university admissions bulletin

Duke Endnote Info

supposed to use this "powerful" citation manager...

Document conversion tools among various formats

Kenzaburo Oe, the 1994 Nobel Literature Laureat

work overview (in Chinese)

interview (in Chinese)

optimism (in Chinese)

sex series (in Chinese)

why go to school? (in Chinese)

The good old days of US flights...

by PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines), since 1949... (random example)

What's the matter with Asian guys in US?

Where To Find Great Free Photographs And Visuals For Your Own Online Articles

from ericyu://

initialized by Cheng-Lung Huang (in Chinese)

SCIgen

Automatic CS Paper Generator, for those in need of publishable (though nonsense, who cares) papers; here is a yet another paper generator for the "postmodern" field.

Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems (online book)