I started out my professional career in digital image processing working on the GOP image processing computer. At that time (mid 1980′s) we wired together our computer out of discreet ALUs, multipliers, comparators, program counters and so forth to get the kind of performance required for the fairly complex algorithms. The concepts have been developed further and are today quite successful for enhancing medical images etc. [1]
I left the image processing lab and eventually strayed into management consultancy. One of my old pals from the university wrote me an email some time after that asking what I was up to and I explained that I worked with quality issues, strategy, organizational development and other similar things. The reply that I got back contained a single word followed by an exclamation mark: “perverse!”
I’m going to regroup for a while and focus on that perverse area, in particular the problem of modeling organizations with a formal language. I will probably write about it on my other blog (I would guess that the union of the sets of people interested in both areas is very close to the null set though). I have in the mean time purchased a very expensive book on video quality which I hope will come to good use when I return to the digital video domain. Cheers for a while!
Links
[1] Introduction to the the General Operator Processor
Note
According to Dictionary.com “perverse” means “turned away from or rejecting what is right, good, or proper; wicked or corrupt”.