Re: Insomnia = brilliance?

[erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Erker)]

I forgot the second part of the story:

  Had insomnia again Saturday night
(only got 4 hours sleep) so I played
with the 225 some more, but I also
came up with a project idea for work*.
A 3D one. One that means we'll have
some spanky LC glasses and 120Hz
monitor to play with.

  Sunday morning I stopped in at
work on my way to soccer (see I
do some non-photography things :)
to see if I had won the 225 auction.

  Carl, one of our professors, was
here and I ran the idea past him since
it's in his area of expertese (Wavelet
compression). He loves it.

  Today in our staff meeting I explained
it. My boss loves the idea (it'll make
for flashy demos :)

  I ordered Dan Shelley's 3dCD to have
some 3d images in house for getting started
(in digital form, since my MF slides aren't
too useful for this project).

So that's the story - Greg

* I work at TRLabs, which stands for
Telecommunications Research Laboratories.
We are a non-profit company sponsored by
Universities, Governemts and industry.
We 5 have labs in the 3 prairie provinces.
Industry sponsors include the 3 provincial
telcos, Nortel, AT&T Canada, MCI, and
dozens of SBAs (small business associates).

  We have a small staff at each lab plus
a larger number of professors from the
affiliated universities who supervise
grad students (MSc's and PhD's) in
electrical engineering and computer science.
TRLabs gets the cream of the students
by providing good scholarships, equipment
and interesting projects.

  Between the 5 labs we do everything from
20GHz wireless to plain old copper twister
pair (telephone wiring). Optics, lasers,
ATM, network control, survivability etc.

  Our lab's focus is Network Access so
for the last couple of years I've been
working on medium speed internet access
to the home. Carl, the prof I mentioned,
is into ATM research and wavelet compression.
So my project idea relates to applying
his wavelet research to digital stereo
images.

That's the end. Anybody read this all?