The 12th Students' Cloud Programming World Cup has been announced. This year's theme is "Innovation in Metaverse and Digital Twins." Why not challenge yourself in developing cutting-edge VR and simulation technologies using your engineering and programming skills and sensibilities?
Schedule:
April 1 - June 28: Entries accepted
July 10: Preliminary round
After Preliminary Round: Notification of Results
October 2: Deadline for submission of entries by those who have passed the preliminary round
After Nomination Screening: Result Notification
November 19th: Open final presentation and awards ceremony in Tokyo for nominees who pass the nomination screening
Prizes and Awards:
World Cup Prize: 1 work, prize money of JPY 300,000
Special Jury Prizes: 4 works, prize money of JPY 50,000 each
Nominee works: Commemorative items
In the past, China has won 5 times, Korea 3 times, Japan 2 times, and Pakistan once. As we welcome the 12th world cup, we look forward to applications from around the world. For access to last year's winning entries and past winners, please visit:
My first international conference presentation was at the VRML 97 conference in Monterey, CA, February 24-26, 1997.
After the conference, I kept the cassette tape given to me by the organizers, but I thought it was time to put the dubbing service at risk, so I finally dubbed the tape to CD-ROM after 27 years.
The tape contains only audio, which I edited and uploaded to YouTube, along with photos taken by the next presenter at the time.
The English is slow, so even at 1.5x speed you can hear it well enough (lol).
The highlight is the discussion. I couldn't understand the questioner's English, so at the end a local Japanese person translated for me and I answered in Japanese, which got a big laugh. (My excuse was that I was nervous about my debut and that there was a large audience (about 500 people?), but my English was clearly inadequate).
(Today I listened to the questions again for the first time in 27 years (because I never played the tape), and (strangely enough) I could understand the English without any problem.
Fortunately, after the conference, we were invited to visit SGI and its headquarters. It was a great experience for me to visit the Mountain View office and talk with the VRML developers.
I am still grateful to SGI for allowing me to go on an overseas business trip by myself after my first year on the job.
My master's thesis, submitted in February 1996, was written on a Mac (OS 7.x) and stored on a MO disk (128MB capacity). I was afraid that one day I would not be able to retrieve the data, but after 28 years I finally tackled the project.
I rented a MO drive since I don't use it anymore, and since it's an overnight stay, I decided to do it on a business day.
[Try 1]
I connected the MO drive and Windows 11 as is (USB Type-A), the MO drive was recognized, but the MO disk was not. The message "Do you want to format? I almost clicked the "Format (Initialize) Disk" button, but it said "Cancel" and "Sweat".
[Try 2]
I plugged the MO drive into my current Mac. The result was the same as in "Try 1". It's already incompatible with my old MacOS.
[Try 3]
I finally started researching and googled "macOS 1996 MO unreadable" and found that installing software like "MacDrive" or "Paragon HFS+ for Windows" seemed like a good idea (the article was old), so I tried it. But the result was the same as "Try 1". On the other hand, I started to remember what I had done. The format back then was "HFS (Hierarchical File System)"...
[Try 4]
I googled "hfs windows read" and found "HFSExplorer" software in a relatively recent article, so I installed it (Java Runtime installation is also required). I was able to extract the contents of the MO drive, although the characters were garbled!
I'll add a screenshot of the FormZ 3D modeler I was using at the time, the web browser Netscape and the VRML browser Webscape Navigator when I was doing WWW-related research. I miss them. But I still think they have evolved.
For my thesis I used Aldus' PageMaker software (later acquired by Adobe), pict for images, and canvas for drawings, so I will have to convert this data from now on (it will be hard...), but... for now I am happy that I can get the data out. I am happy that I can get the data out.