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Personal: Commercial pilot and certified flight instructor. I
own a twin-engine Piper Seneca II, nicknamed "The Beast". As a volunteer pilot I
occasionally transport organs or patients for local hospitals. Fly
acrobatics when an acro plane is available. I'm also a parrot lover,
and currently live with a yellownape amazon
and a cockatiel.
See my appearance on CNN
Headline News (May 23, 2007), talking about Scientology's
infiltration of the Baton Rouge public schools. I also appeared on
MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann onApril
17, 2006 and again on July
23, 2007, explaining the Scientology cult's wacky beliefs.
Cognitive Robotics: a new approach to robot programming that
draws inspiration from ideas in Cognitive Science. We are
implementing these ideas in Tekkotsu, a robotics application
framework under development in my lab for programming mobile
robots.
ARTSI: Advancing Robotics Technology for
Societal Impact, an alliance of 7 research universities and nine
historically black colleges and universities to recruit more
African Americans to robotics research. Tekkotsu is a major component.
Kathie Lee, a new platform for teaching
robot programming to CS undergraduates.
Computational modeling of the rodent hippocampus: investigating
how space and experience are encoded and stored in the brain. (See publications list.)
Keith Raniere, leader of the NXIVM cult, has a problem with free speech.
NIPS Conference
I serve on the board of directors of the NIPS Foundation. Visit the
NIPS web site for information about this
and past years' NIPS conferences.
Lisp-Related Stuff
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic
Computation (Addison-Wesley / Benjamin Cummings, 1990), is
unfortunately now out of print. But the book is available on this web site,
at no charge. I also have some free
software for Lisp
educators.
Ethics and Etiquette In Scientific Research (updated for 2007):
notes from a lecture to computer science graduate students.
Rules of conduct for persons in authority.
How to avoid improprieties; how to tell if you're being screwed.
Garmin Gotchas: GNS-530 GPS. Stuff I learned the hard way. (I love
my 530 and hope to understand every nuance of the device -- eventually.)
Tutorials on various subjects.
(Currently: information theory, and MATLAB programming.)
The Church of Scientology's Wacky Secrets
Sure, Scientology is a rich and vengeful religious cult based on a
bizarre form of psychotherapy and a belief in reincarnated space aliens.
But that doesn't mean we can't have fun with them.
Secrets of Scientology. Xenu
the space alien, subtle thought control techniques, sacred lie
detectors, and more. Everything the Church of Scientology (and Tom
Cruise) don't want you to know. I am currently receiving legal
threats from Scientology lawyers over this site, and was even picketed at work once.
Looking for Scientology's "we can kill you" release forms? Click
here.
Stop-Narconon.org: protecting the
vulnerable from Narconon/Scientology.
A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard
Exposed, by Jonathan Atack. Read it online.
Amway Sucks! Includes a mirror of
Amway: the Untold Story, by Sidney Schwartz. Amway/Quixtar is a
multi-level marketing scam with interesting cult-like aspects. (And
Scientology is often called "the Amway of religions".) Amway's
lawyers have promised to sue me over this page.
The Gentle Wind Project is
another cult that has actually poked fun at Scientology, but with
their holy healing hockey pucks (designed by space aliens!), they're
just as nutty.