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steveSteve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is really a Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying high level vision. You know... stuff like scene & object perception.

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What happens at Vision Science Society stays at VSS (except in the blogging world)

Category: Brains and StuffVision
Posted on: May 15, 2008 6:52 PM, by Steve Higgins

steve_icon_medium.jpg Well I'm finally done with VSS it was long and stressful... but mostly fun. Here's a couple pictures...

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After all this fun I had to get my game face on and do a talk. I've given a lot of talks in classrooms and even at a conference but after I saw the size of the room and how many people were going to be in it I was a weeee bit intimidated. After letting the stress stew for a couple days I finally gave my talk on Wednesday. I think it went well :) At least people complemented me on it. If you're interested in seeing what I presented with no explanation feel free to download the powerpoint presentation.

I'm looking forward to next years conference already.


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#1

I'm having every meal at Vergina next year.

Posted by: Brian | May 16, 2008 1:00 AM

#2

What the hell am I doing in that first picture? I remember not wearing any pants when you took it.

Posted by: The Yellow Emperor | May 16, 2008 1:01 AM

#3

I think you were trying to show off your "entry hole"

Posted by: Brian | May 16, 2008 11:52 AM

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