February 2012

There were 2 posts published in February 2012 (this is page 1 of 1).

Dinner with Roberto Ierusalimschy

Last night, February 15th, 2012, I had the pleasure of having dinner with the co-creator of the Lua language, Roberto Ierusalimschy. Roberto is a visiting professor at Stanford and is currently teaching a class in programming in Lua. The last time Roberto and I had dinner was in Rio de Janeiro, near PUC University, during the summer of 2010. I was visiting Rio during the World Cup, thought the games were all being played in South Africa, and took time out to meet with Roberto and dine with him.

Back then, at that dinner, we were joined by his wife, daughter and family friends. This time, it was just me and him, and a lot has happened since that dinner. I remember showing him some of the apps that had been created with Corona back then, and last night, I showed him some of the new and immersive games done in Corona. He pretty much wants me to give him a list of the games so he can install them on his iDevice. So, some of you, may get a promo request from me to give to Roberto, so he can install your app on his iDevice. How neat is that.

 

 

Aside from catching up in both the world of Ansca and personal, Roberto is looking forward to meeting Corona developers at a future meetup I plan to put together here at our HQ in Palo Alto. So if you are in the Bay Area, keep an eye out for the invitation to our meetup to meet with Roberto.

Link to Roberto’s page at PUC >> 

Carlos.

 

Afternoon Coffee with Dr. Brian Barsky.

Yesterday, Monday the 6th of February, I had the pleasure to sit down and enjoy a cup of cappuccino with one of the most influential figures in the field of splines and its used in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling. I had coffee with Brian Barsky, co-author of the book “An Introduction to Splines for use in Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling”.

It was a nice afternoon and could not have asked for a better bay-area day. No clouds, sunny and by the time we met for coffee, the sun had began to set in. The UC Berkeley campus was a block away from where we sitting and by the time we got our drinks the action on the street was happening with students filling up the sidewalk with murmurs about classes, school topics and where to catch dinner and planning for the day ahead.

But inside the coffee shop it was different. It was relatively quiet. And after we got our coffee’s, we sat and managed to chat for about two hours, perhaps a bit longer, on topics ranging from splines, digital/film photography, to mobile devices and its use in medicine, and other technologies that will carry us into the future.

To transcribe the over two hours of talk would do injustice to our chat, but having coffee with one of the giants in a field of computer graphics, which has given us the special effects we see today in movies, and its use in other fields is purely amazing. Dr. Barsky was very effusive, and he glistened while taking about current and future technologies and how we can use those technologies in the mobile world to bring the world closer than what it is now.

Thank you Dr. Barsky for allowing me to enjoy a cup of coffee with you while we talked about “splines” and other topics.

Barsky’s book

To learn more about Dr. Barsky, visit his web site >>

Coincidentally, Dr. Tony DeRose, who is now Research Group Lead at Pixar Animation Studios >> was Dr. Barsky’s PhD. student.

Carlos.