Tuesday, July 27, 2010

My Life In A Day. New York City, Jersey Boys, Russian Samovar, Blok and ...


I have just submitted that video to the http://www.youtube.com/lifeinaday project...

That was a one famely vacation day when my wife, me and my son spent in New York city.  We live in Richmond VA (Russian immigrants living in USA since 1999 - see my blog for details - itrubin.blogspot.com) , but that day we arrived (we drove there from Richmond) in a hotel in Manhattan, then walked to Broadway, bought tickets to "Jersey Boys" show, enjoed that show and then had dinner in "Russian Samovar".  Then walked back to hotel via Times Sqare declamating and singing Russian classical poetry (Blok, Pushkin, Lermontov and Okudjava) ...

Friday, July 23, 2010

Inception movie is amassing, but idea is stolen from S. Lem

Inception movie is amassing!  The movie idea is to steal ideas via dream sequence. Actual this idea was stolen from S. Lem: http://www.transparencynow.com/introlem2.htm  
 Similar idea is in Russian book: http://books.rusf.ru/unzip/add-on/xussr_gk/jitina27.htm?1/11

"А.Н.Житинский
                                  СНЮСЬ
                                  Повесть

   Я снюсь. Теперь это стало моим основным занятием. Дело дошло до того,
что меня так и называют - Снюсь. Я - Снюсь....."

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He started in 1979 as IBM/370 system engineer. In 1986 he got his PhD. in Robotics at St. Petersburg Technical University (Russia) and then worked as a professor teaching CAD/CAM, Robotics for 12 years. He published 30+ papers and made several presentations for conferences related to the Robotics and Artificial Intelligent fields. In 1999 he moved to the US, worked at Capital One bank as a Capacity Planner. His first CMG.org paper was written and presented in 2001. The next one, "Exception Detection System Based on MASF Technique," won a Best Paper award at CMG'02 and was presented at UKCMG'03 in Oxford, England. He made other tech. presentations at IBM z/Series Expo, SPEC.org, Southern and Central Europe CMG and ran several workshops covering his original method of Anomaly and Change Point Detection (Perfomalist.com). Author of “Performance Anomaly Detection” class (at CMG.com). Worked 2 years as the Capacity team lead for IBM, worked for SunTrust Bank for 3 years and then at IBM for 3 years as Sr. IT Architect. Now he works for Capital One bank as IT Manager at the Cloud Engineering and since 2015 he is a member of CMG.org Board of Directors. Runs UT channel iTrubin