In Memoriam: Prof. Emmett Leith (1927-2005)

Last week I lost a wonderful mentor and friend, Prof. Emmett Leith. Prof. Leith was my research advisor and was going to be my dissertation committee chair in the PhD program in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan. Among academics, Prof. Leith is known for making holograms useful and ubiquitous by inventing the off-axis method of recording holograms--one could make a strong case that the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics, in addition to being awarded to Dennis Gabor for the invention of holography, should have been shared with Prof. Leith, Juris Upatnieks, and Yuri Denisyuk. Among those who met him--family, friends, students, and colleagues--he was known as a wonderful man. I feel extraordinarily privileged to have had the opportunity to work with and learn from Prof. Leith.

Now playing: Deepest Blue - Can't Believe

Random link of the day: LaTeX Tricks: Theses

Recently re-read: Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

Now playing: The Concretes - Say Something New (a.k.a. the Target song)

Random link of the day: LaTeX, Emacs etc. for your PC - Tuning

Random link of the day: ECE 398SB - Biophotonics (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Random link of the day: Photon Migration Imaging at the MGH/MIT/HMS Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

Random link of the day: Cognitive Effects on the Neurophysiology and Biomechanics of Stroke Recovery. (PhD Thesis in Engineering Sciences, Harvard University) Pilot clinical investigation of hypnosis-aided recovery of motor function after stroke.

Random list of the day: Some classic trance anthems

• Solar Stone - Seven Cities
• Mike Koglin - The Silence
  
• Sasha - Xpander
• Bedrock - Heaven Scent
• William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix)
• Way Out West - Mindcircus
  

Random link of the day: TeXIM

Now playing: Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl

Now playing: Armin van Buuren - Shivers

Random read of the day: Pierre Schlag, Normative and Nowhere to Go, Stanford Law Review (Nov 1990) pp.167-191.

Now playing: Massive Attack - Angel

Now playing: Coldplay - Warning Sign

Random list of the day: Albums that are great from start to finish

This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means, but based on recent listenings these are albums that I can listen to from beginning to end without any urges to skip tracks.

• U2 - Joshua Tree
• James Holden - Balance 005 (Disc 2)
• The Postal Service - Give Up
• The Crystal Method - Vegas
  

Now playing: M83 - Until The Night Is Over

Now playing: U.N.K.L.E. feat. Ian Brown - Reign (Way Out West Mix)

Now playing: The Chemical Brothers - Close Your Eyes (featuring The Magic Numbers)

Now playing: The Chemical Brothers - Surface To Air

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(My Chicago trip in reverse)

Free airplane with checking account in Grand Rapids, MI 

Windmill in Holland, MI 

Looking southward down Wentworth Ave in Chicago Chinatown 

Children playing in Millenium Park fountain 

Looking south along Michigan Ave 

Thai Consulate, Chicago 

John Hancock Center from the southwest 

Street mime on Michigan Ave 

Water Tower being upstaged by a newer neighbor 

John Hancock Center overshadowing Water Tower Pumping Station 

Chicago Tribune Building inscription 

Eastward view from Michigan Ave along the Chicago River 

Building in shadow near Michigan Ave 

Southward view along Wells St, looking towards the Sears Tower 

Random link of the day: Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables by Stacy Berg Dale and Alan B. Krueger, NBER Working Paper No. 7322

and just as quickly as it came, the snow is gone... 

snow in late april...gotta love michigan...