Michael Stewart
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| Contact Method | Contact Detail |
|---|---|
| Phone | |
| michael_stewart@vt.edu | |
| Deskspace | Torgersen 2030 |
| IM (Jabber@vt) | tgm@vt.edu |
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I am from Charlotte, NC. I graduated with a BS in CS from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2007. I worked for Amentra (a consulting firm) for the 2 yrs between my undergraduate and graduate studies.
I want to be a Computer Science Professor, and as such am interested in Computer Science Education research. I am also passionate about Enabling Technologies (or Assistive Technologies). I am also interested in Personal Information Management.
I am also interested in Computer Vision such as the work done by UCF's Dr. Shah. I think cars driving themselves is a longer overdue, inveitable necessity. As technology advances, drivers are having more things to distract them, and it seems to be that the roads may get mroe dangerous (no data whatsoever to back this). I think that Computer Vision is the way to go to get cars driving themselves into ubiquitous usage. It would require no infrastructure, no RFIDs or whatever in the roads, no rails, or etc. Other Great benefits (other than safety) from cars driving themselves might be that people with low income, or alternatively, those with little need for a car could own time on a car rather than their own car. Also, in urban areas where parking tends to be an issue, cars could drop off their passengers and then go to a satellite lot (and recharge?) and return whenever called or scheduled by their owner.
I like that in Computer Science many things kind of start of as metaphors of concepts from the physical world, but that with almost total freedom afforded us by the discipline, we can do anything we imagine.