Association Provinciale
I'm
currently a M.Ing. student (master's degree) in the Electrical
Engineering Department of the
École
Polytechnique de Montreal university.
This web page has been up since june 17, 1996. I have been present on the Internet (affectionnately called "the Net" by many) since 1989, when I began my Computer Science undergraduate course. This is "long" before its popularization in 1996 (or so), at a time when the telnet and FTP protocols were as ubiquituous as HTTP is now.
(Translation: at that "remote" time, the Internet seemed only useful to log on to another computer or transfer computer files from one site to the other, instead of using it to surf the Web.)
That was the time when I used to say that mice and GUI (Graphical User
Interfaces, like Microsoft Windows or The MIT X Window System) were a waste
of computer resources, until the day that specialized hardware will completely
handle the screen and mouse events. This "specialized hardware" is called
today "graphical accelarator cards"; sadly, they are not quite as popular
as they should be, and it's sometimes a pity that precious computing power
is diverted to do this job. One good example of applications using
graphic acceleration is with 3Dfx graphic
cards, which give an impressing look to any program that relies intensively
on rendering a 3D environment.
I have been an ACM member since 1993.
If you can apply, you should seriously consider joining. This is the kind
of channel that can really help a computing career, keeping you informed
of what trends are coming in the years to come. If you are an engineer,
the IEEE and
IEEE-CS
also serve this purpose.
You can find in this page supplementary information on the course IF231 I am teaching at Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in January 1999, as I did in January 1998. (in french)
Outdated: There is also some information in
this page for my students in the course 3.307P I teach at Ecole Polytechnique
de Montreal (in french).
On the air, I am VE2 JVA; since I only have a small protable 2m radio (a 5W Kenwood TH-22AT), I am not exceedingly present. I look forward to having a real emitter, or at least a real antenna to replace the rubber-duck antenna there is on my portable...
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Current contibution to RC5 effort:
- Pentium II-class CPU (Celeron), for an average of 735 Kkey/s. Since march 16th, 1999.
Home page - Aikido - Cyclotourism - seeking new contracts- e-mail me.
This page up since June 17, 1996.
Updated on Feb. 22, 1999 and surely has been accessed
a couple of times since its creation.