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The PhD and Industry

August 18, 2015 Carl Leave a comment

Back in April I was invited to give a talk at the  Lancaster University Postgraduate Research Conference held at the university. The…

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Posted in: Academia, Business, Life Filed under: business, phd, research, skills

Android development talk

May 18, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

On Thursday 10th May, I was asked to present a small talk on android development. I have not been coding…

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Posted in: Academia, CSLU, Tech Filed under: android, cslu, java, presentation, talk

Viral Marketing

April 13, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

I’ve been slowly writing up a skills bank for the Lancaster Award and while finding something for organisation I came…

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Posted in: Academia, CSLU Filed under: challenge, cslu, marketing, viral

Fountain code – solution

March 30, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

The solution to the Fountain code challenge is up on my Github page at https://github.com/carl-ellis/Fountain . Thank to all who…

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Posted in: CSLU, ruby Filed under: fountain, git, ruby, solution

Academic site

March 12, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

When I joined the department, I copied my website of the time onto my departmental web space and forgot about…

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Posted in: Academia Filed under: old, www

Big displays and tabletops – the wrong approach?

February 19, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

The current model Current research trends are in favour of large public displays, hidden projectors, and table top displays –…

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Posted in: Academia, Article Filed under: billboards, conjecture, digital signage, public displays, research, vision

Code Golf

February 9, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

CSLU did code golf today. I did 1 and a half tasks, which were: Output the first 100 prime numbers…

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Posted in: CSLU Filed under: code golf, haskell, ruby

Arduino Gas Sensor – Part 2

January 23, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

Previously So I left the last article with the following: Well apart from the hardware I need, so issues need…

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Posted in: Academia, Article, Tech Filed under: arduino, gas meter, phd

Fountain code challenge

January 21, 2012 Carl Leave a comment

For the second term of the 2011/2012 academic year I’ve made a small challenge for members of CSLU. Details are…

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Posted in: CSLU Filed under: cslu, fountain, ruby

Arduino Gas Meter Sensor – Part 1

December 13, 2011 Carl Leave a comment

Motivation My newly ordered Arduino Uno came in the post today so I got to start building with it! An…

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Posted in: Academia, Article, Tech, Tutorial Filed under: arduino, ldr, light, sensor

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