Guillaume "iXce" Seguin
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These days, I'm mostly interested in computer vision and parallel computing. I also have interests in robotics and computational photography (I'm a photography addict). During the past year or two, I've been working on quite a few things, either as part of my studies, or for pure fun :

• Panor, a software aimed to produce consistent panoramas from flickr tag searches.
• Cloudpy, a fault tolerant distributed computing system, written in Python.
• Umlpy, a simple script, based on Epydoc, to provide UML-like diagrams from Python source codes without much extra work.
• pyLyricsDisplay, a simple karaoke player & editor, which is based on a simple text format.
• A multithreaded event-driven simulator for use with ns-3 network simulator, which lead to interesting investigations on multithreaded reference counting and memory caches handling.
• Cloudster (as part of a larger development team), a clustering framework over the Cloud, using Windows® Azure™.
• An unnamed logic circuit simulation toolkit, with a circuit builder interface and a visual circuit debugger, which was used to simulator a simple microprocessor which was itself running a realtime clock and calendar.
• An unnamed compiler for a fragment of OCaml, written in OCaml and using OCamlLex and Menhir, and which outputs (valid) MIPS assembly.
• NXT Segway, an inverted-pendulum motion based robot, similar to the Segway, build using a LEGO NXT. (see also this other video of the NXT Segway)
• Training four teams of 3 students for the SWERC 09, which is the regional selection for the worldwide ACM-ICPC algorithmics and programming contest.
• Giving out basic & advanced LaTeX 2-hours formations to ENS students with the Tuteurs.

Here is an unexhaustive list of the documents I've written in the past :

• Multi-core parallelism for ns-3 simulator, report for a 3 months internship at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, PLANETE team, under Mathieu Lacage advisory.
• Le PageRank : ordonner le web en tant que tel (PageRank : ordering the web as such), an article about the PageRank algorithm, written as part of Jacques Stern's algorithms course at ENS.
• Calculabilité distribuée (Distributed calculability), an introduction to distributed calculability concepts, written as part of Olivier Carton's Calculability & Complexity course at ENS.
• Le Segway : Une stabilisation dynamique (The Segway : a dynamic stabilization), report for the NXT Segway project.
• Routage et fourmis (Routing and ants), report for a project implementing ant colony system based dynamic network routing.

And here is an unexhaustive list of slides for talks or presentations I've given in the past :

• Multi-core parallelism for ns-3 simulator.
• Cloudster project final (personal) report.
• Cloudster project design.
• Compiz (talk about Compiz window & compositing manager goals, features and future goals, given at the 2009 annual FedeRez meeting at ENS Cachan).
• Le PageRank : ordonner le web en tant que tel (PageRank : ordering the web as such).
• Calculabilité distribuée (Distributed calculability).

I am a French student and open source software contributor.
I was born and grew up in Amiens, half way between Lille and Paris. After two years of preparatory classes, I entered the École Normale Supérieure of Paris (a.k.a. ENS Ulm), and I am currently studying computer science (doing a research MD). My future life aims are not that crystal clear these days. I intended to become either a full time open-source developer or a software engineer, but I may very well become a computer science researcher, or something in between.

I have been doing web development since 2001 and more generic development (involving C or C++) since 2004. I first tried GNU/Linux in 2004, spent several months playing with Slackware, Gentoo and Debian, and I definitely switched in late 2005. I am now maintaining several Ubuntu and Gentoo desktops and laptops and a couple of Debian server running lighttpd for www stuff and providing git services for developers. Check my resume for more details.

My favourite programming languages are Python, C and C++. I prefer GNOME over KDE for random reasons, among which gtk holds a good place. I would like to drop any form of panel and desktop manager in favor of a swiss knife of my own and a shiny window manager. Nevertheless, I wish there would be an open source springy and natural desktop manager similar to Bumptop, which looks just as fun and useless as Kiba-Dock.

If reading this page hasn't bored you yet, check my blog for an overview of what I am currently working on.

• My nickname is meant to be pronounced "iksce" (It's just prounounced like the letter X in French, and should be something like [ks] phonetically). It mostly comes from mathematics (though you are free to imagine any other origin ;)).
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This page was last updated on March 17 2011 16:30:16.