http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ My summer of 2004 will be spent at the Indian Institute of Techology Kanpur (IITK) where I will work under Professor Kalra in developing code and hardware for the human interface of a neural network/fuzzy logic simulator. My interface is supposed to detect the type of user and the problem that they are trying to solve and return the appropriate interface to the user. en-us mbolin@mit.edu 2004-06-26T17:52:33-04:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000087.html Return to America? Don't mind if I do! That's right, I am at home in New Jersey. Unfortunately, the arrangement that I had in India wasn't helping me achieve anything that I really want to achieve, and therefore I decided... 87@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ 2004-06-26T17:52:33-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000084.html Some of you have been wondering what ever happened with me playing badminton. Well, I actually went to the gym on Monday to play badminton, and I had my ass handed to me by the members of the IITK badminton... 84@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ IITK Campus 2004-06-24T05:41:30-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000083.html Today I went to the Campus Restaurant where I usually take my meals because the food at the Visitor's Hostel is pretty unhealthy and is often runs 30 minutes late. Anyway, in my never-ending quest to eat healthy in India,... 83@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Food 2004-06-23T07:30:00-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000080.html Today I decided that I could stay on campus no longer -- after spending two weeks shuttling back and forth between the Visitor's Hostel and the lab, it was time to break from the familiarity of a path well-trodden and... 80@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Firsts 2004-06-22T13:22:23-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000076.html User interfaces are one of my main areas of interest, so I cannot help but comment on the usability of locks in India. Below, you see a picture of the lock on my door which is representative of every door... 76@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Usability 2004-06-21T23:54:47-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000074.html Happy Father's Day, Dad! It looks like it's supposed to be a nice day in NJ, so I hope that you can go and play a round of golf, shoot in the 80s, and then fall asleep on the couch,... 74@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Shout Outs 2004-06-20T05:34:44-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000073.html So the bug situation in my room is getting intolerable. I imagine that it wouldn't be so bad were someone to have designed a door to my balcony that didn't have a one inch gap beneath it. Unfortunately, no one... 73@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Firsts 2004-06-19T12:05:20-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000072.html So today was by far and away my most exciting day yet in India for the following three reasons: (1) I left campus for the first time today. After spending two days getting my IITK id card (which required the... 72@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Firsts 2004-06-17T11:18:38-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000071.html Some of you have probably been wondering what I do here, so I will hold you in suspsense no longer. Basically, the group for whom I am working has this large piece of software that they have written that is... 71@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Work 2004-06-16T23:20:30-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000070.html I have three Gmail invitations that I can extend. Whoever starts adding decent comments to my blog will get one! And if no one starts commenting, well, then I guess I'll just have to sell them on EBay... (I find... 70@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Solicitations 2004-06-15T21:43:53-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000069.html Here at IITK, they put a lot of effort into making sure the campus looks prim. Every day, I see people mopping the walkways, trimming the grass, pruning the hedges, etc. Coming from a place like MIT where there is... 69@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ IITK Campus 2004-06-15T21:36:44-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000068.html For those of you who check my blog regularly, you may have noticed the new link to Kanpur weather on the right sidebar. As you can see, this looks to be an exciting ten days of unbearable heat in the... 68@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ IITK Campus 2004-06-14T01:27:33-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000067.html So some of you may be wondering what I've been eating. Well, so have I. I take all of my meals at the "mess" for the guest hostel where I'm staying. It's always buffet-style, so there are two or three... 67@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Food 2004-06-14T01:06:58-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000066.html Yesterday I met Stanley. Stanley is special as he is the first and only person who I've met here so far who isn't Indian -- he's Chinese. Actually, Stanley goes to school in Singapore and his PhD thesis has two... 66@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ Firsts 2004-06-13T00:26:29-04:00 http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/archives/000065.html So last night the crickets laid siege to my room. Because I still haven't recovered from jet lag, I woke up from my 2pm nap around midnight. When I tried to leave my room to get some purified water, I... 65@http://www.bolinfest.com/india04/ IITK Campus 2004-06-11T01:42:12-04:00