On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 5:33:22 PM, Freeman wrote: FP> Now at 36, it is time to go back and complete my schooling and to FP> seriously apply myself to my fields of interest: pervasive FP> computing, wear-able computing, and human-machine interfaces in a FP> pervasive computing environment. (No, pervasive and wearable FP> don't conflict; Wearables just aren't small enough to be invisible FP> yet.) I asked this same question on this list a while back (looking to get into the same things, incidentally), and the biggest thing I took away from the response I got (both on the list and privately), was that in the majority of schools, undergraduates aren't allowed to touch anything. All the university-level research projects, be it MIT, Georgia Tech, wherever, all seem to be grad-student-level projects. I didn't hear anything from anyone that indicated that an undergrad (freshman, in my case), even with real-world experience, would be allowed to participate in the projects in any meaningful way. Even the schools where I'd been asked to attend by the professors (whom I knew through private sector work) who wanted me to work on their research with them, when told I would be a freshman, the indication was that it might be a problem. FP> I would like to ask those of you who are in the academic FP> environment how I should go about doing this? Should I start back FP> at where I left off, or should I try to lean on my professional FP> experience and try to get into grad school as some have suggested FP> to me? I do know that I would have to go back and relearn my math FP> requirements - my math skills have atrophied over the years. I'll likely be starting this fall as a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, with no clear major in mind, and the expectation that I'll be continuing my wearable research on my own time, hopefully being able to grill whatever professors and such are there who might be helpful, and maybe getting around to completing and submitting these half-finished papers to ISWC and the like. Perhaps in four or five years, I'll be "eligible" to participate "officially" in this sort of thing. :) Thanks, --Vito -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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