User:Jlettvin

Web presence
My privately hosted home page links to some of the dozen or two private mediawiki sites I have developed. A number of them like this one are password protected for use in private development with friends.

Historical HTML and PHP

 * brainbuildingkit (a years old proposal offering codified rules for constructing primitive nervous systems)
 * daynightlamp (another early proposal for improving images suffering from common photographic defects)

Current material
My latest mathematical models of neural transforms are not published, and far outperform these earlier proposals both in efficiency and capability. With the potential inclusion of authority-owned wiki material I am considering using wikipedia as the launching pad for a series of short papers illustrating methods for image processing including:
 * feature detection
 * contrast invariance
 * aperture invariance
 * chromatic de-aberration
 * color constancy
 * de-noising
 * hyperacuity
 * defect invariance
 * predictive feedback, and
 * reflex response.

Capabilities and Directions
I am considered strong in C++, and work well in either Agile or waterfall teams and have developed a number of novel algorithms and processes. I take particular delight in developing high performance code with zero defects and am currently exploring methods for using distributed computing to achieve highly reliable transforms over low reliability networks. Python, mayavi2 and tvtk, and ITK look very promising to me, and I have written a couple of particle systems and image processing applications using them.

See more at:
 * LinkedIn
 * my home page

Some favorite wikipedia pages

 * Emil du Bois-Reymond
 * Santiago_Ram%C3%B3n y Cajal
 * Charles Scott Sherrington
 * Airy disk
 * Portia (genus)
 * C%2B%2B0x

Recent contributions to wikipedia

 * Christian Morgenstern
 * Jerome Lettvin

Recommendations

 * the Nobel prize site Read the Nobel lectures! Seriously!
 * list of lists of uncommon words These should be highly prized by vocabulary enthusiasts.

Anatomy, Medicine, Brains, Neurons, and Biological Electricity

 * Friedrich G. Barth:(ISBN 3-540-42046-0)  A Spider's World 
 * Andrew J. Bean:(ISBN 978-0-12-369437-9)  Protein Trafficking in Neurons 
 * Robert M. Berne and Matthew N. Levy:(ISBN 0-8151-0952-0)  Physiology Fourth Edition 
 * G. S. Brindley:(Alden Press 1960)  Physiology of the Retina and the Visual Pathway 
 * Charles L. Dana:(Wm. Wood and Company 1897)  Text-Book of Nervous Diseases (Fourth Revised Edition) 
 * John F. Dowling:(ISBN 0-674-00462-0)  Neurons and Networks 
 * Alan Fein &amp; Ete Z. Szuts:(ISBN 0-521-28684-0)  Photoreceptors: their role in vision 
 * Wendell J. S. Krieg, Ph.D.:(The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, 1942)  Functional Neuroanatomy 
 * Gilbert Ling:(to be added)
 * Bruce McLennan: Information Processing in Dendritic Nets 
 * Karl H. Pribram, John Carew Eccles:(ISBN 0805814663, 9780805814668)  Rethinking neural networks: quantum fields and biological data 
 * Santiago Ram&oacute;n y Cajal:(ISBN 0-19-507401-7)  Histology of the Nervous System  (ISBN 0-262-18191-6)  Advice for a Young Investigator  (ISBN 0-262-03166-3)  New Ideas on the Structure of the Nervous System in Vertebrates 
 * Whitman Richards:(ISBN 0-262-68055-6)  Natural Computation 
 * Bruce I. H. Scott:(Scientific American Oct. 1962, S. 107-115)  Electricity in Plants 
 * Sir Charles Sherrington:(1961 Yale Press)  The Integrative Action of the Nervous System 
 * Ekaterina G. Shkol'nik-Yarros:(Library of Congress SBN 306-30429-5)  Neurons and Interneuronal Connections of the Central Visual System 
 * Ichiji Tasaki:(to be added)
 * Warwick and Williams:(ISBN 0-7216-9127-7)  Gray's Anatomy 35th British edition 
 * Stephen G. Waxman:(ISBN 0-89004-215-2)  Physiology and Pathobiology of Axons 

Perception

 * Jason J.S. Barton and Michael Benatar:(ISBN 1-58829-175-8)  Field of Vision, A Manual and Atlas of Perimetry 
 * Trevor Lamb and Janine Bourriau:(ISBN 0521-49963-1)  Colour Art and Science 
 * Margaret W. Matlin:(ISBN 0-205-07849-4)  Perception 

Mathematics, Physics, and Signals

 * Julius Bendat and Allan G. Piersol:(ISBN 0-471-06470-X)  Random Data: Analysis and Measurement Procedures 


 * A. Bruce Carlson:(Library of Congress Catalog Number 68-22761)  Communication Systems: An Introduction to Signals and Noise in Electrical Communication 
 * Wilbur B. Davenport, Jr., and William L. Root:(Library of Congress Catalog Number 57-10020)  Random Signals and Noise 
 * Charles L. Epstein:(ISBN 0-13-067548-2)  Introduction to the Mathematics of Medical Imaging 
 * Eugene Hecht:(ISBN 0-8053-8566-5)  Optics 
 * Edward M. Purcell:(Library of Congress Card Number 64-66016)  electricity and magnetism 
 * Karel Rektorys:(Library of Congress Card Number 68-25586)  Survey of Applicable Mathematics 
 * George B. Thomas Jr.:(Library of Congress Card Number 68-17568)  Calculus and Analytic Geometry 
 * D'arcy Wentworth Thompson:(Cambridge at the University Press 1959)  On Growth and Form Second Edition 
 * Ian Theodore Young, Jan Jacob Gerbrands, Lucas Jozef Van Vliet:(ISBN 90-75691-01-7)  Fundamentals of Image Processing 

Cross-Discipline

 * Michael F. Deering:(SIGGRAPH 2005 October 2, 2005)  A Photon Accurate Model of the Human Eye 
 * James Keener and James Sneyd:(ISBN 0-380-98381-3)  Mathematical Physiology 
 * Gerald Pollack:(ISBN 0-9626895-2-1)  Cells, Gels, and the Engines of Life  (ISBN 978-1-4020-4926-2)  Water and the Cell  (ISBN 978-1-4020-8650-2)  Phase Transitions in Cell Biology 

Programming

 * Alistair Cockburn:(ISBN 0-201-69969-9)  Agile Software Development 
 * James O. Coplien:(ISBN 0-201-54855-0)  Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms 
 * Stanley B. Lippman:(ISBN 0-201-83454-5)  Inside The C++ Object Model 


 * Bjarne Stroustrup:(ISBN 0-201-70073-5)  The C++ Programming Language 
 * Matthew Wilson:(ISBN 0-321-22877-4)  Imperfect C++ 

Market Analytics

 * Larry Harris:(ISBN 0-19-514470-8)  Trading &amp; Exchanges 
 * George Soros:(ISBN 978-1-58648-885-7)  The Soros Lectures 
 * George Soros:(ISBN 978-0-471-44549-4)  The Alchemy of Finance 

Metadata and Philosophy

 * Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein:(ISBN 0-19-501919-9)  A Pattern Language 
 * Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:(824140/12/64) Oxford University Press The Monadology 
 * Robert Nozick:(ISBN 0-674-00631-3)  Invariances 
 * Randy Olson:(ISBN 978-1-59726-563-8)  Don't be such a Scientist 
 * Jan Sapp:(ISBN 0-19-508821-2)  Evolution by Association 
 * Nassim Nicholas Taleb:(ISBN 978-1-4000-6351-2)  The Black Swan 

Poetry
I enjoy the works of at least these folks:
 * William Shakespeare
 * Samuel Coleridge
 * John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
 * Lewis Carrol
 * W. H. Auden
 * Christian Morgenstern
 * W. H. Davies
 * Robert Burns
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay

They have inspired me to write over +0.13e+4 poems (and counting).

Miscellany
98.217.153.159 (talk) 13:57, 15 December 2010 (UTC)