theopavlidis.com

Picture taken in April 2000

The personal web site of Theo Pavlidis

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Technology: Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition, and Computer Graphics

Biographical Information
Technical Writings Lectures, Papers, Essays
Software I have written that is described on this site.
Tutorials mostly material from my post-retirement teaching at SBU.

Recent Postings
Slides from a Seminar on 2/29/08 Why Machine Intelligence is Very Hard
Collection of CBIR related material (Lasted update: July 7, 2008)

Most Popular Older Postings
Symbol Technologies: How a great company fell on hard times by ignoring technology (first posted 8/24/05 - latest update 1/10/07 when the company ceased to exist and was acquired by Motorola)
Computers versus Humans: A discussion of Artificial Intellidence for a general audience (2002).
 


General Interests

Essays and some Reprints
Book reviews and book lists
Greek Page
Jewish Page

My blog: Occasional postings on topical issues. Started May 12, 2006

Recent Postings
Karamanians and a French book translated by a Karamanian writer (The writer was my paternal grandfather after whom I have been named. Latest update: June 21, 2008)

Most Popular Older Postings
Family History focused on the Greeks of Asia Minor.
The Greek Jews and the Holocaust (an article by Dr. Michael Matsas)
Emerson's poem on Success - a reprint.
 

Health Issues (Still under construction)

Most Popular Posting
The (Lack of) Science behind the Body Mass Index (BMI) (2007)
 

Last update: July 18, 2008.
(This date refers only to the index page. Other pages may have been modified more recently.)