In my earlier post (see below) I provided a link to a video that showed the Colorado shooter making a presentation on his work with John Jacobson in Sejnowski's lab. However, one news article provides Jacobson's recollection of him; see: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-colorado-shooting-sider-20120723,0,5073789,full.story
Quoting from the article: |A graduate student who oversaw him during an internship at a prestigious |computer laboratory at the Salk Institute at UC San Diego scoffed at |reports of his extreme intelligence. | |"I saw a shy, pretty socially inept person," John Jacobson, who is a |doctoral candidate at UC San Diego, said Sunday. "His grades were |mediocre. I've heard him described as brilliant. This is extremely |inaccurate." | |Holmes attended the Salk program between high school and college |and performed poorly, Jacobson said. "He shouldn't have gotten into |the summer program." | |Jacobson said he was taken aback when in a video of a summer-end |presentation, Holmes called him his "mentor." "That's almost slanderous," |Jacobson said. "I was never his mentor." | |Jacobson also said Holmes was enormously stubborn and refused to |follow instructions. | |He said he set Holmes to work writing computer code for an experiment |Jacobson had done involving a game of rock, paper, scissors, in which |the computer always beats the human, no matter who goes first. [NOTE: such a program/robot has been created and has been in the news recently; see: http://www.forbes.com/sites/singularity/2012/07/18/japanese-robot-can-beat-humans-at-rock-paper-scissors-every-single-time/ ] |He said that although he urged Holmes to use one method of |programming, Holmes insisted on using another that Jacobson |described as vastly more time-consuming and complicated. | |"He just refused," said Jacobson. "Finally, I said, 'Do it any way you can.'" | |The work never got done. "He never completed the project. What he |gave me was a complete mess," Jacobson said. | |So one might add "stubborn" to the list of traits in the wispy profile of |Holmes — except students who knew him say they don't particularly |recall pronounced stubbornness at all. | |"I think he just liked to share his opinions on stuff he really believes in, |what's right," said a 26-year-old UC Riverside graduate who was in his |lab group in 2008. "There were times he can come off arrogant. He |definitely could." Does FERPA cover any of this? What will his "mentors" at U of D say? -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] ---------------------------- Original Message ------------------------- On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:59:20 -0700, Michael Palij wrote: It appears that the Colorado shooter spent some time working in Terence Sejnowski's lab over in the Salk Institute and UC-San Diego, under the supervision of John Jacobson. The research was on temporal illusions and ABC news has gotten a video of a presentation he made on the topic. To see part of the video, go to: http://abcnews.go.com/US/james-holmes-video-colorado-shooting-suspect-abc-news/story?id=16830653#.UAxfDKAhFj6 Quoting from the associated article: |In the video, he is standing among his peers at a science camp held at |Miramar College in San Diego talking about "temporal illusions." | |"Over the course of the summer I've been working with a temporal illusion. |It's an illusion that allows you to change the past," Holmes said in the video. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19168 or send a blank email to leave-19168-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
