Donald Knuth : My advice to young people.

Good explanation on Pointers : Stanford material

http://www.cs.stanford.edu/cslibrary/PointerFunCBig.avi

Why Logarithms

While preparing for Monday test on Mathematics, I reached topic on Logarithms and was quizzed as to what is the whole purpose of this mathematical concept. I found this link useful to understand it with some historical background and hence posting it here.


http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/52469.html

MIT 150 Years

Interesting Read.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/specials/mit150/mitlist/?page=full

Advice for Students : Got to read in my spare time.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/mernst/advice/#grad-students

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~htk/thesis.htm

Nice Ones.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt

It's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman 

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
-Sir Francis Bacon


The barrier for becoming an 'expert' is set so low that the only real requirement is a talent for self-promotion.
-Damian Thompson. Counterknowledge.


An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-Robert A. Humphrey 

Reference

People in Computational Geometry Area

Jeff Erickson - UIUC
http://cs.illinois.edu/people/faculty/jeff-erickson

UIUC Theory Group
http://cs.illinois.edu/research/areas/theory

Suresh Venkatsubramanian
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~suresh/web/