- Microsoft Hardware Tech Talk
Last week I assisted to a tech talk by a Senior Hardware Engineer for the Zune team at Microsoft Entertainment & Devices. He went over a number of subjects, ranging from cloud computing to handheld devices. A pretty good talk overall and a good look at what might come in the future at Microsoft. I [...]
- Facebook VP at UW Homecoming
Yesterday was Homecoming at the University of Waterloo. For the occasion, Chamath Palihapitiya, Vice President of User Growth, Mobile and International Expansion at Facebook and University of Waterloo ‘99 alumnus was invited to give a talk entitled “Pushing The Digital Envelope”. I filmed most of the talk so I thought I could share it with [...]
- The World Changes
Have you ever been obsessed by a question? One of these existential interrogation that continuously stays in your head and that you can’t get rid of without answering it? Well last week, I had such an interrogation. For the whole week I kept wondering what would happens if a T. Rex fell. With its short [...]
- Back in Black (and Yellow)
After what is my shortest Christmas Holiday for the last three years, I am back in Waterloo. During these two weeks, I took a break from everything I was working on and spent most of my time with my friends and family. The little spare time I got went into Project Euler problems. I managed [...]
- The Day
Today was The Day for our Software Engineering 101 robot. After more than two months of programming, our robot has finally been put to the test. The goal of this project was to program a robot that tracks a green line and turns when it hits squares of a certain color. I was the leader [...]
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