Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Zen of (a course in) Management

Sometimes I stress about the degree of specialization many of us pursuing a PhD feel.  This semester I enrolled in a management course, and while it can’t oppose the pressure to specialize, it has already  provided an outlet for me … Continue reading

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MATLAB for controlling external hardware

Happy New Year!!! For a while we’ve used patchy solutions for controlling a digital micromirror device (DMD), first just by roughly changing the included API code, then a professional software engineer designed a beautiful but very complicated Java code to … Continue reading

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