• Recommendation on books from Stephen, esp w/r/t ODEs
  • Hairer and Wanner, Solving Ordinary Differential Equations
• NLP project
  • Jurafsky & Martin Speech and Language Processing
• 3D graphics by tracking facial features project
  • --: find out who does visual tracking and feature identification here, schedule a time to talk with them
• recommendations on machine learning books
  • 2008-04-07: ask brett who he's asking about
    • I have http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Practical-Techniques-Management/dp/0120884070/ and find it very useful. It has a good mix of introductory material and detailed explanation. Best of all, it provides working implementations of a lot of the algorithms: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
  • 2008-04-07: ask wade about ML
    • As Brett mentioned, there's multiple aspects to machine learning. I really don't have much experience, but the one book I've seen used in nearly every grad level machine learning course is: http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Tom-M-Mitchell/dp/0070428077/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207269886&sr=1-1 ...it doesn't have all too much depth in any area, and covered only a little of SVMs (which are kinda the current 'state of the art' model), but it provides you a good base for where the field began, the core things that have stuck with the field, and why those things work.
• recommendation on book for learning about exterior calculus and DEC
  • 2008-03-31: dyn systems professor ext calc references
  • Arnold: Mathematicla methods of classical mechanics
  • email from professor
• Learning CUDA
  • 2008-04-12: copy lecture notes to my ipod
• see if the library hold training classes on how to do literature searches
• ask Torrellas about this: what if the hardware could check for cancellation errors? it could squash and rollback.
• --: Talk to Anil about cardiac stuff

• --: order the Atkinson book on Introduction to Numerical Analysis.
• --: plan out next actions on all these project ideas

--: email people about the visual tracking stuff.