First day of class Questionnaire

Photo of yourself.
Its there --> under About Me section

E-mail address (e.g., yourname at domain.com). 

afayazi [at] tamu [.] edu

Graduate standing (e.g., 3rd year Phd) (e.g., 3rd Year PhD, 2nd Year Masters, 1st Year PhD w/ Masters).

1st year Masters

Why are you taking this class?

Getting to know researches in this field

What experience do you bring to this class?

Well, I am a bit acquainted with topics in the AI realm such as Machine Learning, Vision and robot localization

What do you expect to be doing in 10 years?

Have finished my studies and have started working in the industry + thinking about the next 10 years again

What do you think will be the next biggest technological advancement in computer science?

Something other than the Von Neumann architecture maybe ?? in the sense of a decentralized processing

What was your favorite course when you were an undergraduate (computer science or otherwise)?

Theory of Languages and Computation since I finally managed to read all the covered chapters of the textbook of a course.

What is your favorite movie and why?

"Taste of Cherry" 1997 for not being yet another preachy and stereotypical movie and "The Matrix" 1999 although Hollywoodish but I enjoyed some of its dialogues.

If you could travel back in time, who would you like to meet and why? 

Kurt Gödel. Because I think he's famous and I would ask him the reason. :)

Give some interesting fact about yourself.

I always try to take advantage of all the added features of devices (phone, camera, etc). Sometimes I wish devices were simpler and had less features.