Guess what? Yesterday, I turned 32.I went to Church and had a great worship time and Korean food thereafter. By the way, I am a member of the Full Gospel Tokyo Church, a branch of the Yoido Full Gospel Church founded by Rev David Yonggi Cho. After the church service, I came back to my [...]

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After many months of hesitation, I have finally succumbed to the temptation of opening a subdomain blog. The new blog will focus on my personal experiences in the land of the Rising Sun (Japan) and Afro-Japanese issues in general. Meanwhile, this blog will continue to focus on technology and its use in the fight against [...]

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Google has just announced their 2008 Scholarship winners. In total, there are 42 recipients from various US Universities.

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In one of our weekly journal paper reading sessions at Hirota/Nomoto Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, we looked at the following paper:

Ch. Theoharatos, V.K. Pothos, N.A. Laskaris, G. Economou and S. Fotopoulos, “Multivariate Image Similarity in the Compressed Domain using Statistical Graph Matching”, Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on Similarity-based Pattern Recognition, vol. 39, no. 10, pp. 1892-1904, 2006.

The leader of the session did a good job but at the end of the session, one of my colleagues commented on the review period of the paper.

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As I was doing my MSc in Computer Engineering at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, I befriended a young man known as Sabelo Dlamini who was doing his BSc (Hons) in Computer Engineering. I used to be the Digital Systems lab demonstrator for Sabelo’s class and besides that we used to stay in the same dormitory-Ansell [...]

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