Converting directory of ipynb to pdfs

Sun 02 February 2020 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Image Showing Icons for converting from Jupyter to PDF files

I wanted to share the content for one of my courses with some other instructors but it turns out not everyone uses Jupyter notebooks.

Option 1: I decided to convert all of the notebooks to pdfs using nbconvert. However, nbconvert isn't working on my MacBook. I think I have too …

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Live Closed Captioning

Sun 26 January 2020 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Picture of me writing on the white board with live closed captioning

Many MSU classrooms have two overhead monitors that project on two screens at the front of class. Each room is equipped with a technology cart that has a desktop computer, overhead camera and laptop connections that can be used to project any of the content to either screen. Up until …

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CMSE Impact Video

Sat 14 December 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Xiaoxing (Adele) Han is a videographer who made some amazing videos to help promote research being done in our department. The following is the video she made of my research which I am very excited to share. I think she did a great job!

Thank you Adele!!!

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Running ImageJ on the HPCC

Wed 04 December 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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A group working over in Plant and Soil Sciences are experts on ImageJ but are relatively new to the HPCC. Together we put together a workflow for getting ImageJ up and running on the HPCC.

Step 1: Log onto the HPCC with an X11 connection

Log onto the HPC using …

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CMSE Presentation at SC19

Sun 17 November 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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I just got out of giving a presentation about the CMSE department as part of the Sixth SC Workshop on Best Practices for HPC Training and Education (BPHTE19) workshop at SC19. It was fun to show people what we are doing in CMSE and share our progress. Here is a …

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Sherpas of Supercomputing

Sun 15 September 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Cover picture of the September 2019 ASEE PRISM Magazine Featuring the Sherpas of Supercomputing article

I had the honor of recently being featured in an ASEE PRISM Magazine article about research facilitation.

An essential, if not yet well-defined, field is emerging at the intersection of research and the high-performance machines that make sense of big data. By Lucy Birmingham and Mark Matthews

See the full …

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Developing curriculum to train Graduate students how to utilize Raspberry Pis to Automate Research Labs

Wed 24 July 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Summer 2019 CMSE CMSE Undergraduate Intern Poster presentation at MidSure by Shelby Santos

Raspberry Pis (RPis) are affordable microcomputers (approx. $35) that have the capability to revolutionize the accuracy and efficiency of data collection in basic laboratory environments. Recreationally, RPis can be used as a base for smart televisions, home …

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Investigation of the process of converting a C++ code into an implementable FPGA file

Wed 24 July 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Summer 2019 ENSURE Student Poster presentation at MidSure by Ana Flavia Borges de Almeida Barreto

A Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is an integrated circuit that can be “rewired” to become other circuits. This ability makes FPGAs highly configurable and can significantly help speed up large scale computation used in …

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Searching the Algorithm Space to Automate Scientific Image Analysis Workflows

Wed 24 July 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Summer 2019 SROP student poster presentation at MidSure by Noah Stolz

Scientific data is often gathered in the form of Images. Scientific Image analysis is the process of pulling specific measurements out of images. Which measures are important complete depend on the scientific question being asked. For this reason, there …

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The Keyboard Trap: Making Jupyter Notebooks Accessible to All Students

Wed 24 July 2019 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

Picture of Abudit in front of her poster

Summer 2019 CMSE Undergraduate Intern Poster presentation at MidSure by Abudit Rai:

Jupyter Notebook is a relatively new environment that incorporates formatted text (using markdown), multimedia (video and pictures using html) and executable code where users can write and execute code within “cells” for languages such as Python, Julia, and …

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