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Chris Taylor’s accomplishments speak for themselves but often have poor grammar. Here is a grammatically corrected version of what they say. Chris Taylor received a Ph.D. in the department formerly known as the department of electrical engineering at Purdue University. He is now an Associate Professor and Master of Science in Engineering program director in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Milwaukee School of Engineering where he is currently enjoying his thirty-ninth trip around the sun. He consumed four tons of cow’s milk and counted to 125,000 by ones all before his twenty-fifth birthday. Chris was not homecoming king in high school or college, and he did not graduate at the top of his high school class; however, his social security number has only three prime factors. He was not involved with any political movements in the 1960’s and has never been in a rock band, but he has held hands with an orangutan. Chris has not been convicted of grand theft auto in the last six and a half years and has never been convicted of a violent crime. He has moved over twenty times living in four countries and three states but contends that he is not running from anything or anyone. In fact, his knees can’t really take much running anyway. He has ridden more elephants than horses and hopes to one day swim across the Arctic Ocean. Serving the web since June 1994 One of the first 600,000 sites on the web | Wedding | Photos | Unix | Essays | Professor Quotes | CS1030 | Popular Attractions Here’s the stuff that gets the most visitors Photographs When people ask me what my hobbies are usually tell them I don’t have any time for hobbies at this stage of my life. However, if I did, photography would be one of them. I’ve had a few opportunities to visit a number of National parks in the US and Canada. This section contains some of what my camera saw. Unix is a Four Letter Word... and Vi is a Two Letter Abbreviation A Unix manual I wrote a few years ago. This section is responsible for most of the email I get from strangers. Spring 2005 Quarter Courses Here is course information for the courses that I am teaching this quarter. CS1020 Software Design II Here is a list of courses taught previous quarters at MSOE. Entertainment I’d like to think that most of the stuff in my webpages is entertaining to someone, but the stuff in this section doesn’t seem to serve any other purpose. Essays Silly things I have written over the past number years for no apparent reason. In grad school, I kept track of interesting things my professors said. Research I’ve tried to make this interesting for those familar with electrical engineering research as well as those who are not. Give it a chance. In graduate school I passed the time by studying human vision and image quality in the Electronic Imaging Systems Laboratory (EISL). Human Visual System Model for Image Quality Assessment This was the focus of my Ph.D. research. I have included a non-technical overview of the research project as well as links to the technical details. I’ve tried to write the overview at a level that people without an electrical engineering degree can understand. Please let me know what you think about it. Red/White Color Images This is a bit of a research diversion. I haven’t done much with this except simulate an experiment that shows that it is possible to get lots of different colors (including yellow, green, brown, etc.) from Red and White. Dot Model Based Halftoning This was my first real research project. Another student at Purdue has taken over this project. Color monitor calibration Project report from my first research project. (In pdf format) Research Papers Access to all my research papers and talks that I have online. More About Me I married Catherine on December 28, 1996. Newsletters Reading my annual newsletters may help you understand why some people think I’m not mean (statistically speaking, i.e., average). While at Purdue, I was involved with the Graduate chapter of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship . I also maintained the homepage for Purdue’s student chapter of the American Society of Engineering Education . I assisted in the development of an HKN Web server at graduate school may help you understand what I think about cheating. Still looking for things to do? Take a look at my really out of date resume . More About You Do you have any comments on my homepage or the stuff within? Are you thinking about coming to MSOE for a degree or two? Have you found any typos or invalid links in my homepage? If so, let me know. Credits Key: Links with a larger font size receive the most hits. next to a link indicates new material has been added recently or the link itself is new... but it should be pretty obvious from the page style, this page hasn’t really been updated in over a decade...