[CppAc] Hi everyone

[Pati, Sarthak]

Let me introduce myself as well!

I am a full time software developer leading the development efforts at the Center for Biomedical Image Computing & Analytics<https://www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/> at the University of Pennsylvania. We deal with the application of advanced computational and analytical techniques to medical images towards advancing personalized medicine. We have a bunch of open source software applications (our major ones are all written in C++) for the scientific community.

My primary interests are Machine Learning, AI and how they relate to Medical Imaging in particular. I also deal with educating the post docs and grad students at the center with good software development practices and how they can use C++ to create efficient applications.

Thank you,
Sarthak Pati
Lead Software Developer
Center for Biomedical Image Computing & Analytics
University of Pennsylvania

From: CppAc [mailto:cppac-bounces at lists.cpp.ac] On Behalf Of Eugenio Bargiacchi
Sent: 05/Jul/2018; Thursday 10:02
To: cppac at lists.cpp.ac
Subject: Re: [CppAc] Hi everyone

I'm going to introduce myself as well then =)
I'm a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. My main focus is AI, in particular multi-agent collaborative settings.
C++ has been my first language, and the one that has always been most comfortable for me to use. My main goals I guess would be to allow more people in academia (in particular AI) to leverage C++ a bit more, since at this point in time squeezing the most out of available machines is pretty useful in order to make useful contributions to the field.
I have a C++ library (https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox) that I'm trying to use as a kind of leverage, where I implement existing algorithms (also trying to fix reproducibility issues in the field) in a straightforward and well-documented way. I tend to experience quite a bit of fear when other researchers want to touch C++, so I'm trying to use this as a way to show around that C++ doesn't really need to be scary in order to allow people to be productive.

If anyone has similar experiences and/or has some approaches on how to present C++ feel free to let me know!
Eugenio Bargiacchi


On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter.vanooijen at hu.nl<mailto:wouter.vanooijen at hu.nl>> wrote:

Not much activity yet, so I'll introduce myself.



I teach at the Hogeschool Utrecht (would be a polytech in other countries?) in the netherlands. I am responsible for the Technical Informatics (Computer Science?) specialization. I teach (or did teach, or will teach) a number of courses focusing on C++ and related subjects (interfacing, digital technology, modelling, system design, C, assembler).



My personal interest is programming micro-controllers in C++, with a special focus on libraries for interfacing external chips. I prefer to do this with compile-time abstractions (google "Objects? No thanks!").



Last year we stopped teaching C-before-C++, now we (initially) teach C++-without-OO (procedural C++).



I'd like to hear if anyone has experience with teaching C++ in any other way than the traditional lecture/classroom/lab-or-home assignments/teaching-assistent way, especially automated grading of assignments and assignment-directed instructions (personalized learning).



Wouter van Ooijen

0638150444 - DL200 2.86

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