About

Author

I’m Chris Fournier, a M.A.Sc. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at OCIECE, Carleton University, specializing in Systems and Machine Intelligence, in Ottawa, ON, Canada.

Blog

This blog will chronicle my time as a graduate student, including the most interesting parts of my projects, classes, and other my other scholarly endeavors, and musings. I’ll cover a range of topics in AI, ML, and NLP, and hopefully provide a healthy reading list of papers and textbooks on a variety of related topics, in addition to my own thoughts on them. Additionally, you may notice the headers of my posts decorated with a little bit of my personal photography of the Ottawa area.

The intended audience for this blog is meant to be not only my colleagues, or others studying in the same field as I, but also anyone with any background in engineering, the sciences, or computers, who should be able to appreciate most of the introductory articles, and could then, if they desire, move on to the more advanced ones. It will be a balancing act, because I intend to provide enough detail to hopefully not bore my colleagues, but also provide succinct summaries, and use headings to make articles easier to skim for those who wish to avoid the more mathematical, or detailed, of the explanations provided.

Name

What’s in a name? The name of this blog is a mathematical statement (read pun) written in Lambda calculus.

Copyright

All of my writing is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License. The photos I use as headers for articles, and pages, are taken and produced by me, and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. The quotes, and figures, taken from other authors are used under fair use, and the original sources themselves are copyright their respective authors, or institutions, and the licenses under which they are released should be taken into account on a case by case basis.