Random thoughts about conducting scientific research, supervising students and «toys» that make creative activities even funnier…
If like me you grew up with the original Star-Trek and following suites, you must have some point thought that the coolest gadget of all
This is not a traditional post with regard to the theme of this blog. Still, I would like to dedicate it to my 13 years
For those who might not have read the first post in this series about the hardware side of things, please have a look: Digital Office I
During a recent group meeting, one of the student was making a comment regarding the document really bad powerpoint by Seth Godin. Her point was
Working efficiently in the digital world is not as easy as it sounds, in particular as you get more and more files to deal with.
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This semester I thought an undergraduate laboratory to last year engineering students. These will be entering the job market (or pursue graduate studies) in a
Seth Godin has written an very interesting (and free) manifesto about the US school system (though the birth of Canada school system is very similar
In a discussion with a postdoc of mine, she was telling me that she observed that advisors are of three types: opener, middle cruncher and
Update May 2nd: This video shown the famous theoretical physicists Michio Kaku on the very same topics 3D transistors technology will help Intel to pack even more
Final result in…I got promoted to full professor, effective June 1st. At that date 21 years ago, I was just starting my grad studies 😉
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In the previous post, I was directing interested students to the free book Organizing Creativity. There are a few more excellent resources on the web
The majority of graduate students that I had the chance to supervised (yes I consider student supervision as a core mission of being a researcher
Computers have become a key tool for the acquisition, analysis and processing of data in scientific research. Furthermore, the value of computer simulation in our
