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Shad Valley, Day 7
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Jul 11th, 2005 at 12:04am |
Day 7 was a Sunday - a restful day, for at least the first few hours. I got a full 10 hours of sleep - more than double any single night over the previous week.
The afternoon brought us Challenge Time. This week's challenge was to design a car that could travel 3 meters as slowly as possible. The evening held house time and some committee time. The evening also marked the first deadline for their project - each group submitted 2 pages outlining the need they were meeting and how they were doing it. There are some interesting projects in there, and I look forward to seeing how they all work out.
We also had our seminar selection time. Seminars are longer, hands-on activities that take place during the afternoons of each day of our work week. On Sunday nights, the Shads rank the seminars in order of preference, and we distribute them to seminars based on these preferences. The seminar they get is the seminar they attend for all four days.
To give you an idea of what we do here, these are some examples of this week's seminars:- Biochemistry: Students will be working with DNA and an aminotransferase in a modern biochemistry lab over in the Faculty of Medicine.
- CS: Students will spend two days at two leading Computer Science research labs - the Edge Lab and the D-Drive lab. Researchers will showcase some of their work in mathematical visualization, interaction devices, collaborative technology, and more. The D-Drive lab, for example, has 5 60" displays that are multi-touch sensitive. They also have a device that allows you to "feel" objects on the screen.
The other two days will be spent programming Aibos - the robotic dogs from Sony that I have mentioned before.
- Civil Engineering: Working with concrete, designing bridges, and testing materials - all in modern engineering labs on Dalhousie's Sexton campus.
Tomorrow brings us back to Monday, and we resume what is as close as we ever get to a "regular" schedule.
(this post was backdated)
Comments:
Anonymous Coward says:
[Jul 17th @ 08:27pm]
The DDrive 60" displays are not multi-touch sensitive unfortunately -- just single touch. There was an illusion of multi-touch capabilities before because the screens were running off of separate boxes, but each box can only have one user interacting with it at a time.
I believe at the moment the displays are all running off of a single server, making it truly "single touch".
mike says:
[Jul 18th @ 12:25am]
Hmmm... I see. Sorry - my mistake.
Although now that I think of it, I was basically quoting from the D-Drive website which says "One central feature of the laboratory is the large (60 and 72 inches diagonal) tiled multi-touch sensitive, high-resolution display panels". I think someone should fix that page. :)
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