Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
اِنَّا لِلّٰہِ وَاِنَّآ اِلَیْہِ رَاجِعُوْنَDr. Altamash Kamal is no longer with us. An MIT PhD, entrepreneur, net-neutrality advocate, satellite, web, and e-commerce pioneer in Pakistan, and the founder of many startups including Xibercom, Wavetech, Spider Magazine, desistore, Dr. Kamal had a profound impact on many lives he touched – including mine. Dr. Kamal, whom most…
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FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) helps students build STEM skills, confidence, teamwork, public speaking skills, and make connections with professionals. I am glad to be part of this effort as a volunteer Coach and mentor for both the First Lego League Jr, and First Lego League Championship. Had to work quite hard to…
Like most production systems, life happens in real time; and there has been several major paradigm shifts happening lately. It's easy to shrug AJAX off as revamped XMLHTTP from late 90's but we all know this isn't exactly the case. With the thought process, frameworks and development around emerging technologies, sands are shifting faster than…
Based on popular blog movement, one of my new year resolutions is to read 52 non-technology related books in 52 weeks. I realize that being techies, we naturally tend to focus on technology books leaving other genres unattended. To accommodate for this deficiency in literary well-roundness, the books I've selected for this task are on wide variety…
Seth Godin blogged couple of days ago titled "Failure, success and neither" It was so well said that I am compelled to quote it hear with all due credits. The math is magical: you can pile up lots of failures and still keep rolling, but you only need one juicy success to build a career.…
Dr. Eric Ackerman, director of MS program at NSU was able to capture some amazing images of total lunar eclipse today. Check out the photos here especially the ones with the ray of green light; this is what he had to say about it. "You can see a couple of images where I caught the…
Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit.Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. So after grueling 18 months, I've just graduated with degree of Masters in Computer Science from Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, Nova Southestern University. I've taken the following courses taught by…
We have been blessed by a baby boy, Zakariya A. Masood, born on 20th Feb 2007, 6:37 PM. He weighed 7.5 lbs and is 20 inches long. Both the mother and the child are doing well. For more, please visit www.ZakariyaMasood.com Thank you for your kind thoughts and prayers. Adnan, Lorry & Zakariya Masood