Miscellany

<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth= "0"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td valign="top" width="202" bgcolor="#006633" background= "BorderLeft.jpg"> <div>Excellence</div> <div>is not a singular event.</div> <div>We are what we repeatedly do.</div> <div>Excellence, then, is not an act,</div> <div>but a habit.</div> <div>-Aristotle</div> </td> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <div><font size="5" color="#0066FF" face="Arial"><b>MiKal Keenan</b></font> <font size="1" color="#333399" face= "Arial">   </font> |     <a href="index.htm" target="_top" title= "MiKal Keenan"><u>home</u></a></div> <div><a href="id17.htm" target="_top" title= "Resume"><u>Resume</u></a>   |   <a href= "id21.htm" target="_top" title="Research"><u>Research</u></a>   |   <a href="id34.htm" target="_top" title= "Publications"><u>Publications</u></a>   |   <a href="id35.htm" target="_top" title= "Awards"><u>Awards</u></a>   |   <a href= "id36.htm" target="_top" title= "Interests/Hobbies"><u>Interests/Hobbies</u></a>   |   <b>Miscellany</b>   |   <a href= "id38.htm" target="_top" title="Contact Me"><u>Contact Me</u></a></div> <div>Miscellany</div> <div><i><b>Memorable Words..</b></i><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">.</font></div> <br> <div><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" height= "16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">"It's impossible."</b></div> <div><img border="0" src="Symb075c002d00f000000000.png" height="16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Already done: Exit from any depth of recursion in recursive descent parsing. Make all functions boolean, then one false return makes all return false. No matter how deep or convoluted the recursion, it'll unravel <i>muy pronto</i>...</div> <br> <div><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" height= "16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">"Don't report that."</b></div> <div><img border="0" src="Symb075c002d00f000000000.png" height="16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">A 'suggestion' on the eve of presenting the results of my first GANN experiments to the UAB graduate research community. Reported it all, won 1st place in a couple of research/presentation competitions, placed 3rd in a professional (IEEE) technical writing competition and got invited to a DOD-sponsored symposium to talk about it. Successfully completed and defended related NASA HQ-supported research...</div> <br> <div><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" height= "16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">"...a progressive conservative."</b></div> <div><img border="0" src="Symb075c002d00f000000000.png" height="16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Term coined to describe my thinking and "politics." It fits, I'll wear it. In my humble opinion it's the way reasoning and science operate by definition, otherwise we get stuck with the stuff of unenlightened experts like "the earth is flat" or we do dumb things and fall off of its edge. "The dumb ups need the smart downs" [phrase coined by an administrator at the University of Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey Institute describing the type of situation wherein the janitor or cleaning lady might know the solution to the corporate board of directors' decision-making dilemma].</div> <br> <div><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" height= "16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">"Balance is important: traditions can be wrong and explorers can get lost . . . "</b></div> <div><img border="0" src="Symb075c002d00f000000000.png" height="16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">MiKal Keenan, 1996</div> <br> <div><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" height= "16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">"...an aggressive, independent thinker..."</b></div> <div><img border="0" src="Symb075c002d00f000000000.png" height="16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">By far the most encouraging characterization that I've received in academia. Thank you Dr. Lee. Xie-xie ni Lee Shih-Fu.</div> <br> <div><b><img border="0" src="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" height= "16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be."</b></div> <div><img border="0" src="Symb075c002d00f000000000.png" height="16" width="24" align="bottom" hspace="0" vspace="0">Patanjali</div> </td> </tr> </table> </body>