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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Let me introduce myself as well!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I am a full time software developer leading the development efforts at the
<a href="https://www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/">Center for Biomedical Image Computing & Analytics</a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Sarthak Pati<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Lead Software Developer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Center for Biomedical Image Computing & Analytics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">University of Pennsylvania<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> CppAc [mailto:cppac-bounces@lists.cpp.ac]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eugenio Bargiacchi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 05/Jul/2018; Thursday 10:02<br>
<b>To:</b> cppac@lists.cpp.ac<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CppAc] Hi everyone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I'm going to introduce myself as well then =)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I'm a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. My main focus is AI, in particular multi-agent collaborative settings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a C++ library (<a href="https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox">https://github.com/Svalorzen/AI-Toolbox</a>) 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">If anyone has similar experiences and/or has some approaches on how to present C++ feel free to let me know!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eugenio Bargiacchi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Wouter van Ooijen <<a href="mailto:wouter.vanooijen@hu.nl" target="_blank">wouter.vanooijen@hu.nl</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Not much activity yet, so I'll introduce myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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!").<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Last year we stopped teaching C-before-C++, now we (initially) teach C++-without-OO (procedural C++). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Wouter van Ooijen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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