Avinash Kak
Purdue University



 * Research Interests

 * The Objects Trilogy Project

 * Courses I Teach and Their Outlines

 * Books Authored

 * Other Publications

 * Purdue Robot Vision Lab

 * SOME TUTORIALS BY ME    (hover for title --- hover may not work in all browsers):      * hover  * hover  * hover  * hover

 * Software Engineering: From Here to Where? An opinion piece written in December 2008

 * Computer and Network Security

 * Some thoughts on what it takes to produce a good Ph.D. thesis

 * My Tutorial on Object-Oriented Scripting at the 2006 Open Source Convention

 * An essay on the state of how programming is currently taught in many universities (written in July 2008)

 * Why Robots Will Never Have Sex --- a talk that makes fun of people who believe that computers are
        about to take over the world
  (A new version posted in August 2009.   Hopefully this version has no typos
        in the narrative that goes with the slides.
)       This is a large file (5 Mbytes) with several embedded images.
       So, depending on your network, it may take a while to download.




And more...


 * Photo
 * Top 20 journals in CS --- by Times Higher Education of UK    (CVIU is at number 10)
 * Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal
 * A story of theft and blatant copyright violation



Last updated: June 2009

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