The Long Cut – Page 5 – We'll get there eventually

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Graduation

Jaimie Murdock
posted on December 22, 2010
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Final grades are in, so I can finally announce that on December 17, 2010, I graduated from Indiana University with dual degrees and honors in Cognitive Science and Computer Science after 7 semesters.

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Published!

Jaimie Murdock
posted on September 7, 2010June 14, 2011
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In June, my paper "Two Methods for Evaluating Dynamic Ontologies" was accepted to the 2nd Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development (KEOD) Conference in Valencia, Spain on October

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virtualbox-bin in Gentoo

Jaimie Murdock
posted on August 19, 2010June 13, 2011
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Some non-Linux-dork posts are in the pipe, but today I had issues getting VirtualBox up and running on Gentoo. Here’s some proper install instructions to work around Bug 283617. I’ll get

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Installing a Brother Printer on Gentoo

Jaimie Murdock
posted on August 10, 2010August 10, 2010
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I’ve been migrating over to Gentoo from Ubuntu (more on this later) and today had the lovely experience of installing a printer. Since at least 2 other computers will be needing these

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Ahead of the Curve

Jaimie Murdock
posted on August 1, 2010August 10, 2010
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Another perfect day They keep pilinâ€™ up I got happiness that I can maintain So beginnerâ€™s luck I had shoes to fill Walkinâ€™ barefoot now Canâ€™t tell north from south But no

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Spring Semester

Jaimie Murdock
posted on May 11, 2010May 12, 2010
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Spring semester is over! All in all, this was an extremely exciting semester. A very brief, concise recap: Held a real human brain in Q301 (Brain & Cognition). The cerbellum is squishy, the

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Dealing with ATi’s Linux Drivers

Jaimie Murdock
posted on March 10, 2010September 3, 2010
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ATi has gotten much better Linux support, but there is still much to be desired. Kernel upgrades pushed through the update manager tend to destroy the ATI kernel module. I’ve found the

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More Curriculum Musings

I’ve been making a bunch of comments on Computer Science education lately. The New York Times has an excellent article about “Making Computer Science More Enticing” which focuses on

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Computer Studies

Jaimie Murdock
posted on February 17, 2010April 15, 2010
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The latest issue of Communications of the ACM, the premier computer science journal, contains an interesting article by IU Professor Dennis Groth — Why an Informatics Degree? The article has

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One Year Later

Jaimie Murdock
posted on January 25, 2010
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With the state of the union address rapidly approaching, I want to highlight some excellent articles bringing Obama’s first year into perspective. Many people have become disheartened by the