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Andrew Cantino

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Muscular hydrostats are constant volume, extremely high degree-of-freedom dexterous manipulators that lack skeletal structure, such as mammal tongues, elephant trunks, and octopus tentacles. Unlike the bone-supported arms of vertebrates, octopus tentacles have no skeletal structure and are thus completely supported by their internal musculature. Every point along an octopus' arm can bend in any direction, twist, expand, and contract by taking advantage of the muscle tissue's low compressibility and a combination of lateral, transverse, and oblique muscles. Because of the constant volume constraint imposed by the tissue's low compressibility, contraction of muscles in one direction will cause expansion or bending in perpendicular directions.

I took [[Machine Learning|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Charles.Isbell/classes/2005/cs7641_fall/]] during Fall 2005. It was taught by [[Charles Isbell|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~isbell/]]. My final project explored automatic sorting of e-mail into folders based on observations of a user's past sorting practices.

I took [[CS 7001: Introduction to Graduate Studies|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2006/cs7001_fall/]] during Fall 2005. CS 7001 is an introductory course exploring what it means and what is required to be a graduate student at Georgia Tech. Every student does two mini-projects to explore some of the topics and professors available here at Georgia Tech. My first project was with [[Dr. Greg Turk|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/]] simulating [[muscular hydrostats]], which I am now continuing, and my second project was with [[Dr. Tucker Balch|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~tucker/]] exploring emergent synchronization of firefly flashes. I wrote a firefly-inspired emergent synchronization algorithm that runs on the [[GNAT platform|http://borg.cc.gatech.edu/gnats/]].

[img[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cantino/myface.jpg]] I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the [[Georgia Institute of Technology|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/]]. I received a Bachelors of Science in Physics with a minor in Computational Science from [[Haverford College|http://www.haverford.edu/]] in May, 2005. I work primarily in the field of [[Intelligent Systems|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/is/]], focusing on machine learning and computer game AI. I am also interested in new online systems that leverage social connections and user content, and in emergent phenomena in both nature and computer science.

This section is for interesting and humorous things. More will come. Let's start with a cartoon from [[phdcomics|http://www.phdcomics.com]]:\n\n[img[http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive/phd011804s.gif]]\n\nAnd another, from [[xkcd|http://xkcd.com/c10.html]]:\n\n[img[http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pi.jpg]]

With [[CABAL|http://iai.gatech.edu/cabal/]], I am currently exploring ways to make ~Non-Player Characters (~NPCs) in computer games more realistic by giving them goals and the ability to plan.\n\nI am also taking courses that explore [[Advanced Internet Application Development|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~lingliu/courses/cs8803/07Spring/cs8803Syllabus.htm]], [[Simulation of Biological Systems|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/bio_sim/]] (should really be called Artificial Life), and [[Computational Journalism|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs4803cj_spring/]].\n\nAdditionally, I am researching automated, personalized, adaptive tour guides in a museum setting using ~TTD-MDPs, a technique for generating a distribution of trajectories through a Markov Decision Process. We have found that simulated tour guides reduce museum congestion while honoring museum visitors’ preferences and autonomy. A short paper has been accepted to AAMAS 2007.

I recently worked on modeling the motion and dynamics of [[muscular hydrostats]] with [[Dr. Charles Isbell|http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Charles.Isbell/]] and [[Dr. Greg Turk|http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/]]. This project involved research into planning and stochastic optimization.\n\nHere are some other recent projects:\n* Last year I took [[Machine Learning]] and worked on some [[7001 Mini-projects]].\n* [[A course I taught at Networking & Systems, Haverford College, June 2005.|http://andrew.absurdlycool.com/class/]] While the course is over, these online class notes are thorough and are written to stand alone. They may prove helpful to those wishing to learn about online content delivery, cPanel, Perl, CGI, and online security.\n* [[Some physics-related educational applets that I wrote,|http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/Teaching_websites/]] including a numerical multi-body simulator applet to play with.\n* [[Freebie Finder|http://absurdlycool.com/]] aggregates freebies from sites across the net.\n* [[SEdit|http://andrew.absurdlycool.com/cgi/sedit.html]] is a simple online file editor.

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