Re: [BLACKBOX] Seasoned Linux.

From: [at]} <Wojtek>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 13:08:19 -0500

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> Wojtek, I give up! Are you generally cynical or just facetious?

Seasoned.

> Either way, I always enjoy your posts; they cause many a chuckle.

I will write something less cynical and more constructive as soon as I
finish up my slides on "Scalable Digital Data Acquisition with Embedded
Linux". This Saturday I am presenting our new scientific hardware/software
(described on skutek.com) to an international audience. I can assure you
my talk contains no cynical remarks. No BlackBox, either. Not this time ;-(

Not all is lost BlackBox-wise, though. This week my closest
collaborator/friend has just presented a talk to American Association of
Physics Teachears on "Advanced Nuclear Science and Engineering
Laboratory", which is being offered at Univeristy of Rochester. One of the
slides is showing the photo of the data acquisition unit, which we built
around one of my digital pulse processors (the DDC-8 DSP, see the SkuTek
website). The GUI shows the characteristic BlackBox icon. I have heard
that students are very happy with this lab. No complaints about the
software. It means that BlackBox-based software has passed the "student
test", what amounts to the highest degree of certification.

Educators on this mailing list, please take a note: there is now ANSEL
curriculum available. The electronics is the most modern out there, and
the software is BlackBox. Please check out the University website
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/urpas/course/phy_245w

This lab can be taken into many directions. If you are at a technical
university, you may think of expanding ANSEL to cover your particular
interest in physics, chemistry, or engineering. If you are interested or
simply curious, please send an e-mail either to me or to the ANSEL creator
Professor Frank Wolfs (wolfs at pas dot rochester dot edu). If you send
an e-mail to me, I will forward it to him anyway.

So not all is cynical here in Rochester.

Yours cynically,
Wojtek

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