Technical Writings by T. P.

Lectures

2004 The Rise and Fall of Unix: Based on a guest lecture in a SBU course on the History of Computing (CSE301). (Given twice, in October 2004 and in March 2005).
2002 Computers versus Humans: A paper comparing Artificial and Human Intelligence  addressed to the educated layperson. It is based on a lecture given at the Stony Brook Emeriti Faculty meeting of November 1, 2002.
2000 K.S. Fu prize lecture: My personal history in the field of Pattern Recognition. Lecture given at ICPR’2000 in Barcelona, Spain.

Papers

2008 Content-based Image Retrieval Collection Several Files (June 2007 to June 2008)
2007 A Solution to a Practical Machine Vision Problem and its Broader Implications (Version of September 2007)
2003 pack4png: A Preprocessor for PNG or GIF Compression A method for transforming images before applying PNG or GIF compression, implementing in effect lossy PNG (or GIF) compression (July 2003). See also the software section.
1990 Integrating Region Growing and Edge Detection: Scanned copy (PDF, 2.3MB) of a paper by T. Pavlidis and Y-T. Liow published in the IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, PAMI-12 (1990), pp. 225-233.

Essays

2005 A bug(?) in Norton Internet Security: A critical discussion of the Norton advertisement filter that classifies images as advertisements simply on the basis of their dimensions. (Posted Octover 2005.)
2005 The story of Symbol Technologies: How a great company fell on hard times by ignoring technology issues. (First posted August 2005.)
2006 Problems with XML / XSL A rather trivial case study (February 2006)

Last Update: June 17, 2008.

 
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